LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices. The 33-page lawsuit accuses the BBC of broadcasting a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump,” calling it…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is unfazed by the Federal Government of Nigeria’s seeming attempt to muzzle the media. Insiders chatted with DAILY POST in reaction to the fine slammed on Trust Television Network (Trust TV) and others. The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) fined the multimedia wing of Media Trust Limited N5million…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government says it will sanction Trust TV, a television owned by Media Trust Group, and the BBC over their stories on bandits in the North. In separate documentaries, Trust TV and BBC Africa Eye exposed the activities of the gangs making life difficult for Nigerians. Speaking with journalists on Thursday,…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says the online media report that he “sneaked out of Nigeria to meet with Twitter executive’’ in the U.S. is fake. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Washington on Wednesday, the minister said his official visit to the…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Danish midfielder Christian Eriksen collapsed during a match Saturday, necessitating urgent medical attention on the field. However, cameras continued rolling as Eriksen received CPR and was stretchered off the field, something that has many fans heated. Eriksen collapsed in the first half of Denmark’s match against Finland at the Euro 2020 in…
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-BBC Hausa has interviewed a 17-years-old boy that escaped while being conveyed to the bush. He said they initially ran but the abductors assembled them back claiming to be security agents. He said when they left the school, the abductors asked one of them to count them. They’re 520! The boy said…
LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSANGERS)- International award winning graduate from the Department of Mass Communication, University Of Benin (UNIBEN), Emmanuel Oluwasayomi Ahmadu has urged frustrated youths to keep hope alive. He said his calling is to contribute his unique experience towards maintaining a sustainable health development for women, youths and children, especially in achieving the SDG’s…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Olusegun Obasanjo who reacted to a statement about him being ‘sick’ by Buhari, slammed the Nigerian President again who according to him is sick in the spirit, body and soul. Obasanjo who stated that Buhari needs to rest and allow another person to take charge of the country in an interview with BBC…