LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Twitter accounts of major companies and individuals have been compromised in one of the most widespread and confounding hacks the platform has ever seen, all in service of promoting a bitcoin scam that appears to be earning its creator quite a bit of money. We don’t know how it’s happened or…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of Kano State Assembly on Wednesday unanimously adopted castration as punishment for rape in the state. The adoption initiated a process to further amend the State’s Penal Code amendment (No.12), Law of 2014. Nuraddeen Alhassan (APC-Rano) had sought a review of the law as he stated that the present 14-year jail…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has opened up on his travails while in detention. He asked Nigerians not to give up on the fight against corruption. He said whether he is the Chairman of EFCC or not, “Nigerians must own the war against corruption,…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2020 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has called on youths to get themselves involved in learning more skills that will help them in the future, while urging governments to take investments in vocational and technical education more seriously. Obi, who said this…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amidst criticisms by many Nigerians and an opposition leader, the Nigerian government has defended its decision not to allow students in the country take part in this year’s West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The education minister, Adamu Adamu, explained the government’s decision last week. He said the government was concerned…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Exactly a week after commercial airlines resumed flight services on Lagos-Abuja route, local airlines are struggling to sustain operations and meet cost as load factor hovers around 40 per cent. The day-one optimism of about 70 per cent traffic across some of the local carriers has waned. Some of the operators complained…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The suspended chairman of the anti-graft agency, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has been released. He was released on Wednesday evening. A family source who asked not to be named informed this newspaper that Mr Magu arrived at his official residence at about 5 p.m. in the Maitama District of the Nigerian capital. Although…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Assembly Service Commission has approved the immediate retirement of the Clerk of the National Assembly, Sani Omolori. This was contained in a statement signed by the Executive Chairman of the commission, Ahmed Amshi, on Tuesday. According to the commission, those who have attained the age of 60 or 35 years…
