LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A prominent member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ekene Abubakar Adams, has passed away. Hon. Ekene was confirmed dead early this Tuesday morning, July 16, 2024, by his wife. Until his death, Adams was Chairman, House Committee on Sports, and represented Chikun/Kajuru Federal Constituency of Kaduna State. A former General Manager…
By Walter Duru, Ph.D LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The digital age has reshaped how we consume and disseminate information, with online media playing a crucial role in shaping public perception and opinion. Recognizing this, the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), with support from the Nigeria Digital Identification for Development (ID4D) Project, recently organized a two-day roundtable…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Lionel Messi faced calls on Wednesday to apologize for racist chants made by Argentina‘s players after they won the Copa America. An Argentinean government official said Messi, who is the team captain, and the president of the country’s soccer federation, Claudio Tapia, should apologize after a video was shared on social media…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-There was pandemonium in Oko Oba, the Orile Agege area of Lagos, on Monday night as residents resisted an attack by gunmen. PUNCH Online gathered that four gun and cutlass-wielding men, after robbing a pharmacy store on Ogundele Street, attempted to abduct the owner of the store in his car. A resident…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Media entrepreneur Dele Momodu has made a “passionate appeal” to Nigerians on the importance of treating media practitioners as business people with bills to pay, not a group of persons doing charity. In an Instagram post on Monday, the Ovation Media Group chairman bemoaned the lack of respect given to journalists and…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The National Media Complaints Commission (NMCC), otherwise known as the Ombudsman, has received a formal complaint from the Federal Government against the Daily Trust newspaper, which it alleged published an article on July 4, 2024 “containing false and misleading information that severely threatens national security”. In the complaint, dated July 8, 2024,…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Actress Amanda Seales posted an outrageous video online explaining why she thinks the attempted assassination of Donald Trump was staged. The former president, 78, survived the attempt on his life when the bullet missed him by less than an inch on Saturday afternoon, at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Corey Comperatore, the…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Nigeria’s naira extended its losing streak to a fourth day, slipping to the weakest level since March despite central bank intervention amid seasonal demand for dollars and continuing investor skepticism. The naira stood at 1,563.8 per dollar at its official close on Friday, according to FMDQ. That’s the weakest since March 18,…
