LAGOS MAY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has approved a 50% discount on all passenger train services operated by the Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC. This is to cushion transportation costs for Nigerians during the Eid-el-Kabir celebration. The president said the discount will take effect from Tuesday, May 26, 2026, until Monday, June 1, 2026. Passengers travelling on NRC…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Zekeri Umoru, one of the suspected coup plotters, on Wednesday said discussions were held on switching off the electricity supply to the Presidential Villa, Abuja, to aid the alleged coup targeted at President Bola Tinubu and other top government officials. Mr Umoru, a Julius Berger Nigeria Plc employee in the Maintenance…
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGER)-A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday watched video recordings of investigators’ interview sessions with three of the six men being prosecuted over an alleged plot to overthrow the President Bola Tinubu administration. In the video recordings played in open court, two of the three defendants, retired Navy Captain Erasmus…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has defended Nigeria’s continued borrowing strategy, including a recent $516 million external loan request, insisting that borrowing is a normal financial tool for development and not something to be feared. “Borrowing is not leprosy; we just have to work hard to be able to pay back,” Tinubu…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has approved a minor reshuffle of the Federal Executive Council, removing the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, and the Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Ahmed Dangiwa. This was disclosed in a statement on Tuesday by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 8,433 delegates are expected to participate in the 2026 national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at Eagle Square, Abuja. They will be led by President Bola Tinubu, 31 governors, and members of his cabinet. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this at a…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed all political appointees in his administration who intend to contest elective positions in the 2027 elections to resign from their posts on or before March 31. The directive was announced on Tuesday by Dewan Goshit, Head of Information and Public Relations at the Office of the…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has directed the Renewed Hope Ambassadors (RHA) to distribute rice across all the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in support of citizens observing the ongoing Ramadan and Lenten seasons. Governor of Imo State and Director-General of Renewed Hope Ambassadors, Senator Hope Uzodimma, who…