LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, has directed the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to remove the N20 USSD fee imposed on subscribers for National Identification Number (NIN) retrieval requests. This directive came following the outrage across the country from subscribers who…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, has revealed how he facilitated the release of 344 schoolboys of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara without payment of ransom. The schoolboys were abducted by suspected bandits from their school in Kankara town last Friday. Although Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the abduction and put…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tired, hungry and dazed – Nigeria’s freed schoolboys arrived back home on Friday (December 18), having been rescued from their captors. As they got off buses in the city of Katsina, many of them appeared to be barefoot and were wrapped in blankets after a week-long ordeal. Gunmen on motorbikes had raided…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bleary, barefoot, apparently numbed by a week of captivity, more than 300 Nigerian schoolboys, freed after being kidnapped in an attack on their school, were welcomed by the governor of Katsina state Friday. Reunions that are more celebratory and emotional likely will come when the boys are finally reunited with their families,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-During the police brutality protests in Nigeria in October, bitcoin saved the day when the government shut out protesters from using local payment platforms for collecting donations to support it. The young, tech-savvy protesters quickly switched to using bitcoin, and in about a week bitcoin accounted for around 40% of the nearly…
LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bayern Munich star won the fifth edition of the annual awards after helping the Bundesliga giants to a historic treble. Robert Lewandowski has been named The Best FIFA Men’s Player of the Year for 2020, with the Bayern Munich star beating Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to the coveted prize. The…
LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former governor of Zamfara State, Senator Ahmed Sani Yerima, has declared his intention to vie for Nigeria’s presidency on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in 2023. He said this at a media briefing in Abuja on Wednesday. According to him, he had on three occasions stepped down to enable…
LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja has been asked to compel President Muhammadu Buhari to sack all the service chiefs over their alleged failure to curb insecurity in the country. In the suit that was lodged by the governorship candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, in Adamawa State, Alhaji Said Uba,…
