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…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Transportation has again given reasons he asked the National Assembly not to probe the Chinese loans. The clause in the agreement signed by the Federal Ministry of Finance on behalf of Nigeria and Chinese Bank on September 5, 2018 has generated a lot of controversies in the country in…
LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-TheSenate is the highest and most respected lawmaking body anywhere in the world. Interestingly, Nigeria is not an exception. Though it has become a retirement home for tired former governors who can barely walk without support and former ministers who are battling to scare off corruption probes, it is notwithstanding a part…
By Jerome-Mario Utomi LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It is globally recognized that every citizen of a modern nation is a subject of the state, and once a state is formed, the citizens formulate ethical principles or virtues to be pursued, vices to be avoided and values to be cherished-for the good conduct of the citizens. These…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate ad hoc committee investigating the misappropriation of funds in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has asked that the Interim Management Committee (IMC) refund all “unjustifiable funds” paid to staff of the commission. The panel also recommended that henceforth, the NDDC report directly to President Muhammadu Buhari and asked that…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Despite the public embarrassment the ongoing probe of Ibrahim Magu, suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has caused the government and the nation, the presidency yesterday engaged the global anti-corruption watchdog, Transparency International (TI) in a shouting match after TI berated President Muhammadu Buhari for keeping Magu…