LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Google News Initiative Journalism Emergency Relief Fund (JERF) has announced it is supporting 16 Nigerian publications with funding. Launched in April, the JERF serves to help local publishers facing financial hardship as a result of the economic and advertising downturn. “JERF has provided $39.5m in funding to publishers in 115 countries…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A resident of Inisa town, Osun State, Tunde Oyeniran, has allegedly hacked his wife and two children to death. Oyeniran, a nurse, allegedly perpetrated the act on Friday, around 11pm, using a cutlass to kill his wife, Sarah, and the other two victims. He also allegedly inflicted cuts on himself in the…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Shinkafi Emirate Council in Zamfara state has said it cannot withdraw the traditional title it conferred on former Aviation Minister Femi Fani-Kayode, because the ‘title is irrevocable and irreversible.’ The Emir of Shinkafi, Alhaji Muhammad Makwash had last week, conferred on Fani-Kayode the traditional title of “Sadaukin Shinkafi.” But some members…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has said two persons died while three were injured when a 20-feet container fell on a commercial bus at Ilasamaja on the Oshodi-Badagry Expressway. LASEMA Director-General, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, who confirmed the accident on Sunday in Lagos, said the dead bodies and injured persons had been…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mountain of Fire And Miracles Ministries (MFM) has urged an Online Publisher to henceforth stop the misguided and vicious attack on MFM General Overseer, Dr D.K. Olukoya. A statement signed by Mr Collins Edomaruse, a Media Aide to Dr D.K. Olukoya disclosed that the Church attention was drawn to an on-line story…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chairman, Edo 2020 Campaign Council, Chief Dan Orbih has accused thugs suspected to have organized by All Progressive Congress (APC) of the desecrating Oba of Benin palace grounds. In a statement Orbih said, “The unfortunate incident that took place yesterday in the course of the official visit of the Governor and members of the…
LAGOS 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Nigeria’s Justice Minister and Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami, has been asked to make full disclosure on recovered assets linked to the OPL multi-billion dollar oil scam. Assets running into billions of dollars have been recovered due to local and international litigations but there are increasing public outrage against…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has finally picked up the gauntlet thrown down by the National Assembly to name lawmakers who got contracts from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The minister, in a document attached to his response to the threat by the House of Representatives to sue…