LAGOS MARCH 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria wants Binance to give information regarding its top 100 users in the country and all transaction history spanning the past six months, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. The demand comes as Nigeria’s detention of Binance’s compliance head and Africa region manager moves into a third week. Binance’s Tigran Gambaryan and…
LAGOS MARCH 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen who kidnapped at least 287 school children in Nigeria last Thursday have demanded a ransom of 1 billion naira ($621,848) and threatened to kill all of the students if their demands are not met, a member of the local community told CNN on Wednesday. “They called me from a hidden number…
LAGOS MARCH 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two senior Binance executives will remain detained in Nigeria at least through a March 20 hearing, according to a Wednesday report from the Wall Street Journal. The two men – American citizen Tigran Gambaryan, Binance’s head of financial crime compliance, and dual U.K.-Kenyan national Nadeem Anjarwalla, the exchange’s regional manager for Africa…
LAGOS MARCH 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Islamic police in Nigeria’s northern state of Kano arrested 11 Muslims on Tuesday who were seen eating food during the Ramadan fast. Kano has a majority Muslim population, where an Islamic legal system – Sharia – operates alongside secular law. The Islamic police, widely known as Hisbah, carry out searches of…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent Media and Policy Initiative IMPI has hailed the federal government for allocating more funds to capital expenditure than recurrent in the budget for the first time in the current democratic dispensation. It said in statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju that the decision to buck a 24- year trend…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu on Monday expressed readiness to end the perennial farmers, herders crisis in the country. Tinubu vowed to draw up programmes that would end the crisis within two to three weeks. He spoke during the inauguration of the mechanised agricultural project in Minna, Niger State. The President, however, noted that…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The hope to migrate by health and care workers with their dependents from Nigeria and other countries to the United Kingdom have been dashed with the ban to that effect on Monday. The ban by the UK Government is coming over two months after similar stoppage of dependents migrating to the UK…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) have declared a 7-day warning strike over federal government’s delay to pay their salaries. The decision to embark on a warning strike was part of the resolution of the joint action committee of the two unions, after a…