LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The CBN says online media reports purporting the sacking of the bank’s governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, is untrue. Head of Corporate Communications at the CBN, Osita Nwanisiobi, made the rebuttal on Wednesday in Abuja . Emefiele is currently out of the country on official assignment. African Examiner reports that Emefiele has been…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of State for Health, Dr Olorunmimbe Mamora, on Tuesday, debunked news about free deoxyribonucleic acid tests popularly known as free DNA tests for Nigerians. The minister disclosed this in an interview with The PUNCH In Abuja. The PUNCH reports that some Nigerians took to the popular micro-blogging site, Twitter, with…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Yobe State Police Command has debunked recent media report of Nigeria troops’ rescue of 20 abducted police men from ISWAP den, describing it as fake news. A statement signed by Police Public relation Officer (PPRO) of Yobe State Police Command, Damaturu, ASP Dungis Abdulkarim sighted by NewsRangers said the story or news…
LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Legendary Nigerian actress, Joke Silva, has debunked rumours of the death of her husband, Olu Jacobs. According to news making rounds on the internet, the veteran actor was rumoured to be dead. Joke Silva disclosed her husband was hale and hearty. She said, “Don’t mind them, they’re just talking rubbish; don’t disturb…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ebonyi State government has denied reports making that rounds in the media that bomb explosion has killed a suicide bomber in Efikpo describing it as fake news. While denying the news in a press statement signed by Francis Nwaze, Special Assistant to the Governor on Media and Publicity, sighted by NewsRangers the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Supreme Court of Nigeria has further clarified that there is no medical evidence to show that the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, is Covid-19 positive. This is contained in a statement made available to TheNigeriaLawyer signed by the Supreme Court Director of Press and Information, Dr. Akande Festus He…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Although a UN helicopter undertook a mission to Banki in Borno State Tuesday, it was not shot down nor did it crash, the Nigerian Air Force said in a statement Tuesday. PREMIUM TIMES had earlier reported an helicopter incident in Banki, a border community with Cameroon, with a humanitarian worker suggesting the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pastor Ize Iyamu has not addressed the press since he lost the Edo State governorship election on Saturday and has neither conceded defeat to the incumbent Governor, Godwin Obaseki, his campaign said Thursday morning in a statement. “The Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu Campaign has called on the traditional media to perform due diligence…