LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Ms Hossam, whose social media posts have been attacked for violating ‘traditional values’, begged for clemency on Monday Canadian lawmakers passed a controversial bill that aims to regulate programming distributed by media streaming services and social platforms like Facebook and YouTube, a measure that critics warn could infringe on individual speech. The […]
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Egyptian police on Tuesday arrested a Tiktok star who has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for her posts on social media. Haneen Hossam, a 20-year-old Cairo University student who became an influencer on video sharing app Tiktok, was sentenced in absentia on Sunday alongside four others. While all five were fined […]
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Four Saudis who were involved in the death of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 received paramilitary training in the US the year prior, The New York Times reported Tuesday. The contract for the paramilitary training was approved by the State Department and carried out by a contracted group called […]
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Supporters see him a returning liberation hero, who revived a long-lost dream of African nationhood from his flat in faraway south London. Critics see him as a dangerous insurgent who belongs behind bars. Like him or loathe him, though few would disagree that Nnamdi Kanu has come a long way since his […]
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWRANGERS)-Nigeria’s economy could be leaning against the wind as the country’s external reserves fell to a 13-month low last week, tumbling quickly to $30 billion, the level it was between 2015 and 2017. Last Thursday, the figure slid to $33.79 billion, as it dropped by $30 million. This represented a 0.09% decline […]
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Watford have reached an agreement with Club Brugge over the transfer of forgotten Super Eagles striker Emmanuel Dennis. The Hornets announced in a statement on their official website, which read: An agreement with Club Brugges has been reached for the transfer of exciting young forward Emmanuel Dennis, Watford FC is delighted to […]
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected kidnapper has been killed while trying to abduct an expatriate in Dankande, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Bandits were said to have laid ambush for the expatriate at Plan Farm Phase when they were engaged by security operatives. The incident, which took place on 21st June, 2021 at […]
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja in a landmark ruling today “restrained the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and its agents from unlawfully imposing sanctions or doing anything whatsoever to harass, intimidate, arrest or prosecute Twitter and/or any other social media service provider(s), media houses, radio and television broadcast stations, the […]
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Sokoto State High Court sitting in Sokoto on Monday convicted a Facebook scammer, Murtala Abdullateef, who was said to have presented himself as a General in the United States Army serving in war-torn Syria. Mr Abdullateef was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but was given an option of N200,000 in […]
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Apo, Abuja, has sentenced a former federal lawmaker, Farouk Lawan, to seven years imprisonment for taking bribes while serving as the chairman of the defunct House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating the fraud around fuel subsidy regime in 2012. Angela Otaluka, the trial judge, […]
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