LAGOS MARC 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Facebook will be helping Nigeria with its upcoming 2019 presidential elections. This comes after a team from Facebook, led by Ebele Okobi (Facebook’s Public Policy Director for Afrika) visited and met with Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to explore various ways in which they could work together on voter education and…
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some Libya returnees from Edo state have accused the federal government of abandoning them and failing to fulfil its promise of empowering them with funds after giving them initial training. The returnees, while accusing the federal government of neglect, said more Nigerians would continue to flee to Libya if the situation in…
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two people, a soldier and a yet to be identified woman, Friday, lost their lives while several others were injured in a multiple traffic accidents involving several vehicles in Nyanya, along Abuja-Keffi Expressway, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. According to eyewitness accounts, the accident was caused when a Sino truck…
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorochas is to host no fewer than two hundred online media practitioners made of bloggers and online publishers in Owerri, Imo State in the thirty six states of Nigeria. A flier made available to NewsRangers stated that the event organize by Online Media Practitioners of Nigeria (OMPAN) with…
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Binta Murtala Nyako of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted an exparte application seeking the leave to bring an application for an Order of Mandamus to compel the Inspector-General of Police to arrest and prosecute Senator Andy Uba over allegation of certificate forgery. A civil society organisation, Anti-Corruption…
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (NEWRANGERS)- With nuclear tensions at a high between Russia and the West, Vladimir Putin has said that he is willing to destroy the world – but only if Russia is threatened. In a two-hour video documentary released in his native Russia, Putin said that he would give the order to launch if…
Peter Obi,Women’s Dday, LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has lamented the plight of Nigerian women, especially women in the north-eastern part of the country, who have had their problems compounded by the Boko Haram insurgency. “My heart bleeds for abused and exploited women around our beloved country, but more…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWRANGERS)-A female member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), identified only as Debbie, was yesterday crushed by a moving train in Ikeja, Lagos State. The accident left her body seriously mangled. According to an eye witness account, “the train was not moving at a high speed. People tried to call her…