LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Controversial media personality Kemi Olunoyo has spoken on the new #10yearchallenge taking over the internet. The challenge which has seen millions across the globe take part in it according to Kemi was introduced by the CIA to nab terrorists. Read her claims below; ”My #10yearchallenge will be an achievement not what I…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police in Cross River State have recovered the vehicle of a kidnapped seasoned journalist, Peter Etim aka, God Father in state. Etim, a staff of the Cross River State Broadcasting Corporation (CRBC) Radio/TV services was kidnapped in the early hours of Friday while going to work. He was supposed to have…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2019 (NEWSRANGERS)-A Tunisian journalist has died after setting himself on fire, officials said, in a protest over harsh living conditions that prompted overnight clashes with police in the country’s west. Police fired tear gas at dozens of people who took to the streets Monday night in the city of Kasserine, 270 kilometres (165…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND(NEWSRANGERS)-The Online Publishers Association of Nigeria (OPAN) has sued the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) over what it terms the unlawful use of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, Etc.) Act 2015 to oppress journalists in the country. The association through its President Austyn Ogannah and General Secretary Daniel Elombah contends that the Act…
LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump has called the response to the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi ”the worst cover-up” in history as the US announced it would sanction Saudi Arabian officials who are implicated in the death. Mr Trump was speaking hours after Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan dismissed Riyadh’s efforts to blame Mr…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabia admitted for the first time on Friday that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the regime’s consulate in Turkey, claiming he got into a “fist fight” that cost him his life. The assessment by the Saudi attorney general was broadcast on state television. The broadcast also reported that five top…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A journalist, Akinwunmi Dickson, and his son Nelson, 12, have been killed after fire gutted a shopping complex on Awolowo Way, in the Ikeja area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the deceased were asleep in an office in the complex when the incident happened around 5am on Sunday. An eyewitness,…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Jones Abiri, a journalist and publisher of a local tabloid in Bayelsa State, The Weekly Source, yesterday relieved his ordeal in the Department of State Sevices (DSS) cell. Abiri returned to Yenagoa, the capital, and was received at the secretariat of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) by reporters and the leadership of…