LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate said on Wednesday that only those involved in budget preparation would accompany the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to the National Assembly on Thursday. The President is expected to present the 2021 national budget estimates to the joint session of the federal parliament on Thursday. The President of the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Spokesman of the senate, Ajibola Basiru, has said no member of the Nigerian senate got N20 million as COVID-19 palliatives. Basiru stated this while reacting to a statement made by the executive director of projects at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Cairo Ojugboh. Ojougboh had stated that senators and members…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Federal lawmakers are again smarting for a showdown with their leadership and the presidency once they resume from their annual vacation. The mutual ethnic suspicion in the polity will again reverberate in the consideration of the controversial National Water Resources Bill 2020, Nigerian Tribune investigation revealed. The bill which was shut down…
LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A major construction company, Webster Global Ventures Limited, at the weekend described its inclusion in the list of companies allegedly coerced to be paid by the National Assembly as a deliberate effort to destroy the company’s reputation. The company described the statement credited to the Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta…