LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States Mission in Nigeria has debunked the rumour that it’s no longer issuing student visa to Nigerians. On its verified Twitter handle, @USEmbassyAbuja, the mission wrote, “#FakeNews Alert! Be advised, reports of Student Visa ban for Nigerians is false. If you have seen such manufactured item on Facebook and Twitter…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Army on Tuesday dismissed as fake, an advertisement notice for recruitment into the Nigerian Army Medical Corps trending on social media titled “Eparcel Service for Military Hospital February- March 2019” requesting unsuspecting prospective applicants and members of the public to apply for various appointments/positions in the Military Hospitals. The advert…
LAGOS JANUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Military and community sources in Bayelsa have described some media reports of militants’ attack on an oil pipeline in Koluama 1, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state as “fake news.” Some media have had reported that a militant group blew up a pipeline within Conoil’s oilfield near the Atlantic coastline…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)President Buhari has warned Nigerians elites to stop misleading the people through their unguarded utterances and hate speeches. The president gave the warning at the 24th convocation ceremony of the University of Uyo on Saturday where he said universities as home of great thinkers, should give guidance to the communities to enable…
By Jerome-Mario Utomi LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Among other teachings received as a student of media and communication studies, I was specifically told that information is the life wire of every business/governance. That to manage a business is to manage its information, and managing its information, means managing its future- that was back in the days….