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…
LAGOS JUNE 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twitter’s suspension in Nigeria will end once the US social media giant submits to local licencing, registration and conditions, the government said on Wednesday, rejecting criticism the ban had stifled freedom of expression. Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed told AFP Twitter had sought talks with the government, which last…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States of America has again urged the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to rethink and rescind the Twitter ban in Nigeria. This message was conveyed by a top American official and senior diplomat, who is the current administrator of the US Agency for International Development, Samantha Power. Power, in…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 176 concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit against the government of President Muhammadu Buhari over “the unlawful suspension of Twitter in Nigeria, criminalization of Nigerians and other people using Twitter, and the escalating repression of human rights, particularly the rights to freedom of expression, access…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Embittered by the unfortunate shooting and killing of four residents of Iseyin Town by men of the Nigerian Customs Service on Thursday, the Aseyin of Iseyinland, Oba (Dr.) Salaudeen Adekunle Ajinese and other stakeholders of the ancient community yesterday pronounced outright expulsion of the security operatives from the community. The monarch made…
LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Southern Senators Forum (SSF), has commended the Southern Governors Forum (SGF) for outrightly taking a firm position on burning national issues, including restructuring and banning open grazing of cattle in Southern part of the country, among other demands. The lawmakers said the decision was a welcome development against the backdrop of…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ayangburen of Ikorodu Oba Kabiru Shotobi has said Okada activities should be banned in Lagos State if the war against insecurity must be won. He insisted that now is the time to implement the law banning their operations. The monarch was a panelist at the stakeholders’ meeting on security holding at the…