LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, has been signaling his support for Nigerian bitcoin adoption through a series of tweets over the weekend. Dorse is one of the big celebrity names in the crypto community. As a result, his tweets on crypto pick up a lot of interest, no matter how cryptic or…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos-based entrepreneur Ogechi Egemonu was selling more than 500,000 naira ($1,219) worth of watches, shoes and handbags on Twitter per week. Now, with the site suspended by the Nigerian government, Egemonu does not know how she will cope. “Social media is where I eat,” she told Reuters. “I depend on social media…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Christian Eriksen probably suffered a cardiac arrest but staged a remarkable recovery, according to his former cardiologist at Tottenham Hotspur. Professor Sanjay Sharma, who put the former Tottenham midfielder through an annual battery of tests between 2013 and 2020, said Eriksen had no known history of heart problems – but that no…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s government announced on Friday that it was suspending Twitter “indefinitely” after the deletion of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Tweet, which violated Twitter’s “abusive behaviour” policy. Since the ban, users have been on the lookout for ways to access the social media platform through the use of a VPN. The volume of online…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Six soldiers and a yet undisclosed number of gunmen are feared dead in Ohafia, Ohafia council area of Abia state in the early hours of Saturday as the military battled gunmen in the area. Vanguard gathered that on Thursday, at about 5pm, unknown gunmen had stormed the Ebem motor park, shot sporadically…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Army on Saturday said that about 7,403 wounded soldiers in action (WIA) are currently undergoing medial treatment at the 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna (44NARHK). The Acting Chief Medical Director of the 44NARHK, Colonel Stephen Onuchukwu, disclosed this while briefing the Senate delegation led by its President, Ahmad Lawan…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Family of the acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993, Presidential election, late Chief MKO Abiola, on Saturday decried that the Federal Government has not fulfilled promises made to the family. The family’s secretary, Rahaman Abiola, made this known in an interview with journalists when a delegation of the Ogun State government, led…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Stakeholders believes that the arrival of more indigenous airlines in Nigeria will continue to drop the prices of air tickets in the country as customers will have the choice of choosing those with better offers. Green Africa and the United Nigerian Airline are the two newest Airlines launched in 2021. The first…
