LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate has mandated its Committees on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions, ICT and Cybercrimes and Capital Market to invite the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele to brief it on the recent ban on cryptocurrency in the country. The Senate also invited the Director General of the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded the names of the immediate past Service Chiefs and the Chief of Defence Intelligence to the Senate as non-career ambassadors-designate. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina disclosed this in a statement he issued in Abuja on Thursday. In a letter…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate has stepped down the confirmation of the Special Assistant to the President on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, as a National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The chamber has reached out to the presidency to replace Onochie, whose nomination has divided senators. The Presidency is currently weighing its…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The senate has confirmed Mahmood Yakubu as the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). President Muhammadu Buhari reappointed Yakubu in October. The academic is the first to be reappointed as the head of the electoral body in the country’s history. The upper legislative chamber confirmed Yakubu’s nomination after Ibrahim Gaya,…