LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Jigawa State governor, Muhammadu Badaru Abubakar, three senators from the state, namely; Senator Danladi Sankara, Senator Ibrahim Hadejia, Senator Sabo Nakudu and some member of the national and state assemblies and other top government officials escaped death as they were held hostage for several hours by angry youths in Hadejia town. Vanguard…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has accused National Assembly members of stealing billions of naira in the name of constituency projects. The ICPC, in a report tagged “Constituency Projects Tracking Group”, tracked 424 projects from 2015-2018 constituency projects between June and August 2019 across the 12 states of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Some senators have vowed to shoot down the Finance Act (amendment) Bill seeking incremental changes to Nigeria’s tax and fiscal law, which passed second reading on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday. Specifically, they said they would mobilise stakeholders to reject the bill during public hearing. The majority of the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye has called the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan to send all ‘analogue’ senators to computer schools as he canvassed for digitalization of the senate. Melaye made the call while speaking on the 9th Senate Legislative agenda on Thursday, September 26. “We must also visualize this chamber….
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has asked the President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, to stop misleading Nigerians, adding that senators earned N15m monthly and not N750,000 as claimed by Lawan. Lawan had on Tuesday said there was no such thing as “jumbo pay,” adding that…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Plan by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to probe its members for voting the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates in the recent election of the Senate President and Deputy Senate President as well as the House of Representatives Speaker and Deputy Speaker is now causing ripples in the opposition party. Although the…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Oil magnet, publisher and winner of Anambra South Senatorial district election, Dr Ifeanyi Ubah has denied stories making the rounds that he has defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Ubah has recently been fraternizing and conducting Senate leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan and other senators round Igbo communities and establishments in Lagos…
LAGOS JANUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senator Dino Melaye has denied being part of the lawmakers that booed President Muhammadu Buhari during the 2019 budget presentation before a joint session of the National Assembly on December 19, 2018. Melaye, who represents Kogi West Senatorial District on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said he was absent at…