LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Victor Osimhen, the prolific Nigerian striker currently playing for Galatasaray, finds himself at the center of a controversy that has nothing to do with his goal-scoring prowess. Turkish media, particularly Posta, report that the forward allegedly assaulted a journalist outside an Istanbul nightclub last night. The incident reportedly occurred as Osimhen was […]
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Media entrepreneur Dele Momodu has made a “passionate appeal” to Nigerians on the importance of treating media practitioners as business people with bills to pay, not a group of persons doing charity. In an Instagram post on Monday, the Ovation Media Group chairman bemoaned the lack of respect given to journalists and […]
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former senator and the acting mayor of a small Haiti town have been charged in the death of a journalist whose 2019 killing, amid the country’s deepening political crisis, sparked protests and calls for an investigation after he became the third journalist in the country killed in less than two years. […]
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian National Committee of the International Press Institute (IPI Nigeria) has again raised the alarm over the safety of journalists in the country. This follows the report of the abduction of Daniel Ojukwu, a journalist with the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ). According to reports, Ojukwu was abducted by the Intelligence […]
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State has asked the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to investigate the alleged brutal assault meted out to Bunmi Adigun, an Ogun-based journalist, by security personnel attached to Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State. DAILY POST gathered that Adigun, the Secretary of the Ogun Council […]
LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be cultists have killed a Benin City-based cinematographer and presenter at Independent Television (ITV), Mr. Hilary Odia. Odia was reportedly shot dead on Christmas Eve at his residence on Esigie street, Oredo local government area of Edo state. The gunmen were also said to have ambushed and killed a […]
By Yushau Shuaib LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-“Ladies and Gentlemen. This is your Captain speaking. We regret to announce that because of a technical problem, we have to return to Paris for safety and security.”_ That was the announcement made by the Captain of the Abuja-bound Air France flight on Monday, October 23, 2023, that had […]
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a recent interview insisted “anyone involved” with the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi is “serving jail time,” a comment that comes ahead of the five-year anniversary of the murder. When asked in a rare interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier about if any individuals are […]
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Wuse Zone II Magistrates’ Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, sentenced a journalist, Sanusi Inuwa, to three years in prison for N10.2 million fraud. Inuwa, 47, claims to be the publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Daily Focus newspaper. The court imposed the sentence after finding Inuwa guilty of defrauding one Hamza Galadima of the said […]
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The journalist who published the alleged phone conversation between the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and the General Overseer of the Living Faith Church, Bishop David Oyedepo, has been suspended. Peoples Gazette suspended Ayoola Babalola on Tuesday for online behavior that violated the newspaper’s social media policy and called […]
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