LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says Nigeria’s democracy is being threatened by the predominance of money politics. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, said this on Wednesday at a one-day colloquium on emerging issues that will shape the 2023 general election. The event was organised by the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD)…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-After the killing of Deborah Samuel, a Christian, second-year student in the northern Nigeria city of Sokoto on Thursday for alleged blasphemy, fake news and disinformation have been widely shared on social media. A war of words erupted on Twitter and Facebook between some Muslims and Christians in the country, with each…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-SEN. John Akpankudohede, National Secretary, All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) has denied resigning from the position. Akpankudohede said this when he spoke with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja at the party’s national secretariat, saying that he remained the national secretary of the APC CECPC. “I have…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has denied purchasing aircraft to support a campaign for him to contest the presidency in 2023. Online reports had surfaced earlier on Wednesday indicating that the CBN governor had bought “three airplanes” for his presidential campaign, and that he had also 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 OCTOBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Presidential spokesman Femi Adesina has faulted reports that the aircraft on which President Muhammadu Buhari recently travelled to the United States developed fault mid-air. Adesina described the reports published on some online platforms as an example of fake news that has become a major vice and threat to information dissemination in the…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police have described as fake a report that gunmen hijacked a bus filled with students of the Ken Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic, Bori, Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State. Recall that an online viral report had claimed that the gunmen behind the purported hijack had demanded N2 million ransom to free the…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barr. Valentine Obienyem, Special Adviser to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Vice Presidential Candidate in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has dismissed as fake news, reports that his principal has secured a court injunction to stop the probe of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). “Kindly disregard the news as fake. There…