LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Journalists across Ecuador have been targeted by explosive devices sent through the post. One presenter, Lenin Artieda, was injured when he opened the envelope in the middle of the newsroom. He said the explosive device looked like a USB drive. He plugged it into his computer and it detonated. The Ecuadorean attorney-general’s […]
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Online Publishers Association of Nigeria (OPAN) strongly condemns today’s raid of online newspaper, Peoples Gazette’s office in Abuja and the subsequent arrest of five journalists by armed policemen. According to news reports, the policemen forcefully entered the media office and demanded to see managing editor, Samuel Ogundipe and a reporter […]
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The management of THISDAY has disclaimed Mr. Stanley Nkwazema, one of the suspects paraded by the police on Thursday in connection with the invasion of the residence of Supreme Court Judge, Justice Mary Odili. The Force Public Relations Officer, CP Frank Mba, had described Nkwazema, who was arrested along with other suspects […]
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Taliban must immediately cease attacking journalists and searching their homes, and allow members of the press to operate freely and without fear of violence or reprisal, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Since the Taliban took power in the country earlier this week, militants have searched the homes of at […]
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three persons, including Olubunmi Afuye, an Ondo-based journalist, have been shot dead in a robbery attack at a bank in Ilara- Mokin, Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State. A policeman was also gunned down in the attack which happened on Thursday afternoon. The late Afuye, who was inside his car when […]
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A cameraman attached to the Information Unit of Jibia Local Government of Katsina State, Ibrahim Dankabo, was on Monday killed during a kidnap operation by bandits. The hoodlums also abducted many travellers in the area, local sources said. A community leader in the area, Gide Suleiman, told PREMIUM TIMES that Mr Dankabo […]
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abdulkadir Shehu, a journalist with Progress FM, a private radio station in Gombe, said he returned the $3,000 dollars he found along the road to its owner, because it would be wrong for him to claim it. Shehu told the News Agency of Nigeria in Gombe on Monday, that as at the […]
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Six Ugandan soldiers were handed prison sentences of up to three months by a military court on Thursday for taking part in the brutal beating of local journalists covering the country’s opposition leader. The seven injured journalists were covering an effort by opposition leader Bobi Wine to file a petition on Wednesday […]
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Harzoyka Resturant located in Ikeja, GRA, Lagos was reported to have prevented a female Nigerian journalist and producer of CNN Africa, Aisha Salaudeen and her female colleague from eating inside the restaurant because they were not accompanied by men. has called out a restaurant in the Ikeja area of Lagos for allegedly […]
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Army colonel Assimi Goita on Wednesday introduced himself as Mali’s new military strongman a day after a coup that was condemned by the international community but won support from the country’s opposition. The African Union, European Union, the United States and the UN Security Council have all demanded the junta free President […]
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