LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Islamic police force in Kano, a Muslim-majority state in Nigeria, has raised eyebrows after it ordered shops to only use headless mannequins to advertise clothing. “Islam frowns on idolatry,” Haruna Ibn-Sina, the commander of the Sharia police known as the hisbah, told the BBC. “With the head on it looks like…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian importers have continued to further hit in losses running into billions of naira on their cargoes trapped at Benin Republic borders. Daily Sun learnt that the situation forced some importers to pay additional costs to reroute the goods via Togo port to Nigeria. Last month, the government of the Republic of Benin…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A United States court has issued a summons with a 21- day ultimatum to the world football body, FIFA, to respond to Samson Siasia’s suit challenging his coach licence ban and indictment for bribery. According to PREMIUM TIMES, a copy of the summons was issued on August 5, 2021 by the U.S….
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The chances of Nigeria winning medals at the Tokyo Olympics has been dealt a big blow with the declaration of 10 of the country’s athletes as ineligible to compete. A statement on Wednesday from the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), an independent body created by World Athletics that manages all integrity issues –…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A petition, calling for the ban of the consumption of dog meat in Nigeria have garnered thousands of signatures online. Titled “Stop Nigeria’s Barbaric Dog Meat Industry,” the petition seeks a ban and shutdown of the dog meat trade industry in Nigeria. As at the time of this report, the petition which was…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Many young Nigerians are adopting bitcoin amid the crypto ban put in place by the Nigerian Central Bank. In fact, since the start of 2021, peer-to-peer bitcoin trading has grown to $204 million, the largest amount in Africa. Data collated from Usefultulips, a Bitcoin analytic provider, shows Nigeria dwarfs the rest of…
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)-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…