LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-About 50 journalists working with Microsoft are set to lose their jobs, as the American multinational tech giant reportedly moves to replace them with robots. According to local media reports, those affected are contract employees working as curators for the company’s news website, MSN. They perform functions such as selection of stories, […]
May 31 2020 | Posted in
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LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) halted a coronavirus testing program promoted by billionaire Bill Gates and Seattle health officials pending reviews. The program sought to send test kits to the homes of people both healthy and sick to try to bring the country to the level of testing officials say is […]
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS Bill Gates believes we may eventually need to produce as many as 14 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines globally and that we’re anywhere from nine months to two years away from making that happen. In a blog post Thursday, the billionaire Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist outlined what the race for a […]
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LAGOS APRIL 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A petition to investigate Bill Gates for “crimes against humanity” and “medical malpractice” has gained a staggering 289,000 signatures from concerned citizens, almost tripling the number required to get a response from the White House. The “We the People” petition asks the federal government to call on Congress to investigate the Bill […]
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bill Gates has condemned Donald Trump’s decision to suspend funding for the World Health Organization, saying it is “as dangerous as it sounds”. The billionaire Microsoft founder tweeted that the world needs the health body more than ever. Trump’s controversial decision, which he said was made over the WHO’s handling of the […]
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Microsoft founder Bill Gates, 65, has announced he is stepping down from the board to focus on philanthropic endeavours. He says he wants to focus on global health and development, education, and tackling climate change. One of the world’s richest men, he founded the company 45 years ago and stepped down from […]
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bill Gates has regained the title of the richest person in the world, surpassing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Friday in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, has a net worth of $110 billion, which topped Bezos’ total worth of $109 billion, according to the index. Gates briefly held the […]
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-You’d assume that being worth $103 billion (£80.8 billion) would mean that all of the niggling professional regrets that you otherwise carry around with you would be sandblasted away. Apparently not, though. Bill Gates is still fairly upset about his “greatest mistake ever”, though admittedly his ‘greatest mistake ever’ is probably of […]
By Esin Suji LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two of the acknowledged hallmarks of effective leadership are the ability & courage to identify & harness available human and material resources or assets to fulfil its mission, role or mandate – and these assets include constructive criticisms designed to help improve the quality of results. The basic assumption […]
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, says it is incorrect to say the execution process of the economic and recovery growth plan (ERGP) does not truly reflect the needs of Nigerians. He said this in response to a statement made by Bill Gates at the expanded national economic council presided over by […]
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