LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Despite being asked, Mark Zuckerberg won’t attend a British parliamentary hearing about Cambridge Analytica’s data use. In a statement to Damian Collins, chair of Digital Culture Media and Sport Committee, Facebook’s head of public policy for the UK Rebecca Stimson outlined all the ways Facebook would change its course of action (like…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There are indicators that the forthcoming Easter celebration by federal and state civil servants may be bleak following a fresh scam uncovered in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) subsidy payment. A civil rights organisation, Coalition for Probity and Integrity in Civil Service (CPICS), revealed that the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC),…
LAGOS MARCH 27T (NEWSRANGERS)-The graduate son of a Nigerian politician was shot dead near his family’s London home in the latest round of bloodshed in the capital. Abraham Badru, 26, who was given a police bravery award as a teenager for saving a woman from a sex attack, was gunned down in the street in…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three persons lost their lives in a multiple auto crash that occurred along the ever-busy Benin – Ore expressway on Tuesday morning. While a female and two male passengers died in the accidents, 10 other persons sustained serious injuries in the crash involving a bus on the fleet of God is Good…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has declared Friday, March 30 and Monday, April 2, as public holidays to mark the Good Friday and Easter Monday. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Minister of Interior, retired Lt.-Gen Abdulrahman Dambazau, made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government. Dambazau enjoined Christian faithful and Nigerians…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday shocked members of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of his party when he called for the cancellation of tenure extension for party officials. He disclosed his position to bewildered party members at the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the APC in Abuja. Recall that the APC…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)– With the ‘Not Too Young To Run’ Bill still pending approval by President Muhammadu Buhari, youths in Nigeria have began to position themselves for political leadership and active participation in the upcoming elections in 2019 and beyond, especially with the registration of the new Modern Democratic Party. The new party, led…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Vice-President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has began the race towards the 2019 presidential election under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party with a flag off of his campaign consultation in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Tuesday. The event which took place at the banquet hall of the Rivers State…
