LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A police sergeant serving in Gubja, Yobe State, has accused the authorities of abandonment. In a video, which has gone viral on social media, the officer lamented over his plight and that of his colleagues. The sergeant narrated how he survived a Boko Haram attack in which many policemen were killed. He…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-These are not the best of times for famous billionaire and chairman of Doyin Group of Companies, Prince Samuel Adedoyin, as one of his grandsons, Subomi Olabayo, on Tuesday, committed suicide. The 28-year-old Subomi is the son of Lola Olabayo, a daughter of Prince Adedoyin and Managing Director of Royals Fast Food,…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal government has told the ECOWAS court that it lacked the jurisdiction to criminalise the suspension of Twitter in Nigeria as the suspension of the operations of Twitter in Nigeria is not a right recognised under any treaty enforceable by the ECOWAS court. The Federal government stated this in a preliminary…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Again, we need to be reminded that those the gods want to totally destroy, the gods first make them irretrievably mad. Imagine those that have been restrained by Justice RilwanAikawa in Suit No. FHC/L/CS/921/2020, since 26th of August 2020, from parading themselves as National officers of ANLCA, or signing any documents on…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man named Umar Usman Dagona who emerged National Winner of a Chemistry competition, and went on to represent Nigeria online in the Imagine Chemistry Worldwide 2020, has developed a cellphone that can make and receive calls without sim card or recharge card. Umar Dagona is from Gashua town of Bade…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-John McAfee, the creator of the McAfee antivirus software, has been found dead in his cell in a jail near Barcelona, a government official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Hours earlier, a Spanish court issued a preliminary ruling in favor of the 75-year-old tycoon’s extradition to the United States to face…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-An armed robbery suspect has died while two others are battling with death at a hospital in Ogun State. The suspects were involved in a fatal accident on Sunday while escaping with a snatched vehicle. Ogun State Police Spokesman DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi explained that they were arrested by men of Ogun state…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANNGERS)-The Presidency has washed its hands off the current efforts at the National Assembly to amend the laws establishing the Nigerian Press Council, the National Broadcasting Commission. These are the agencies of government that regulate the print media and broadcast media, respectively in the country. The planned amendments to these laws has…
