LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is unfazed by the Federal Government of Nigeria’s seeming attempt to muzzle the media. Insiders chatted with DAILY POST in reaction to the fine slammed on Trust Television Network (Trust TV) and others. The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) fined the multimedia wing of Media Trust Limited N5million…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was confusion in Ibom State High Court as Uduak Akpan, the first accused in the murder of Akwa Ibom job seeker, Iniobong Umoren, was sentenced to death by hanging. Akpan attempted to escape shortly after the sentence was announced by the trial judge, Justice Bassey Nkanang, on Thursday. Our correspondent reports…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former boxing world champion Johnny Famechon has died in Melbourne after a lengthy illness. He was 77. The Sport Australia Hall of Fame announced Famechon’s death in a statement on Thursday. Famechon was struck by a car while jogging in 1991 in Sydney which caused him to suffer a stroke and resulted…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria asked Google to block the use of YouTube channels and livestreams by banned groups and terrorist organizations in the country, Information Minister Lai Mohammed said on Thursday. Nigeria has been exploring ways to regulate social media usage in the country, Africa’s most populous. The country is home to millions of internet…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peter Obi Support Network (POSN) has slammed All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, accusing him of wishing the Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, and his supporters dead. POSN in a statement issued on Wednesday observed with dismay that Tinubu has refused to condemn the obituary…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-An angry mob has destroyed a mortuary at Ndiolumbe, Isiala Ngwa council area of Abia State ,over alleged harvest of dead body parts. The mortuary attendants were said to have fled the facility on sighting the irate youths. The mob burnt ambulances and destroyed the facility, popularly known as Prince O Mortuary,…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Actor Kenneth Jideofor aka Aguba has stated his ‘real’ citizenship, claiming he’s certainly not a Nigerian. Aguba, who was recently rescued from the streets of Enugu and given a home by General Overseer of Omega Power Ministry (OPM), Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere, in one of the church’s free estates in Port-Harcourt, raised eyebrows…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s broadcast regulator has fined Multichoice Nigeria Ltd, part of South African pay-TV group, and others 5 million naira ($12,013.74) each for airing a BBC report that it said “glorified the activities of bandits and undermines national security.” The National Broadcasting Commission said in a statement on Wednesday that the outlets had…
