http://ift.tt/2ifH6Zj LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The European Union on Tuesday said it would spend €23.3m (N9.9bn) on a four-year programme that would focus on tackling corruption in Nigeria. The EU Ambassador and Head of Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Kurt Cornelis, said this in Abuja during the inauguration of the four-year Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption…
http://ift.tt/2AfmGXn Mama Taraba LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Allies of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Alhassan and the governor of Adamawa State, Jibrilla Bindow, yesterday met President Muhammadu Buhari separately and pledged their allegiance to him. Their benefactor, Atiku, resigned from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) recently and is said to…
http://ift.tt/2ncGsNE Kwankwaso LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There is mounting pressure from some PDP bigwigs on former governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to dump the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and re-join them, credible sources in Abuja and Kano told Daily Trust yesterday. The renewed call on Kwankwaso to go back to the PDP heightened few days after…
http://ift.tt/2ndKGoq LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWRANGERS)-Photographs have surfaced online of President Muhammadu Buhari in company of All Progressives Congress, APC, national leader, Bola Tinubu flying to Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. They are billed to attend the European Union –African Union, EU-AU, summit in the country. Also in the entourage of the President were governors Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar…
http://ift.tt/2AhGU2o Abdulrasheed Maina LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-After its consultative meeting with representatives of civil society groups drawn from the six geo-political zones of the country in Abuja on Tuesday, the Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to order all its officials named in the scandalous reinstatement…
http://ift.tt/2AeR449 LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Despite the hardship that Nigerians are going through in order to survive, there seem to be plans to increase the electricity tariff. This was made known by the Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo on Monday at the Sixth Presidential Business Forum held at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa,…
http://ift.tt/2AHBoHf LAGOS NOVEMBER 2TH (NEWSRANGRS)-The National Association of Nigerian Students on Tuesday called on security agencies to commence prosecution of the persons behind the killing of some members during its convention held in Bayelsa state. The association also expressed its condolence with the family of Elvis Magam, a 300 level student of University of Uyo,…
http://ift.tt/2AH6eiX LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The militants who kidnapped the six Senior Secondary School students of Lagos Model College, Igbonla, Epe in Lagos State a few months ago were among the youths that surrendered their arms to embrace the amnesty of the Ondo state government on Tuesday. The militants were also alleged to be responsible for…