LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The recent Gen Z protests, which have already claimed more than 72 lives and inflicted heavy damage on state institutions, have also caused huge loss in Nepal’s media sector, with journalists wounded and multiple news outlets attacked. Reporters covering the demonstrations outside Parliament in Baneshwar came under fire. Journalist Shambhu Dangal was…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Larry Ellison has overtaken Elon Musk as the world’s richest person after shares in his software giant Oracle soared on Wednesday. Ellison’s fortune was up $101 billion mid-morning after the company’s revenue forecasts for the next five years caused its market value to rise 44% to more than $959 billion. The…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Akinade Adejobi, who is the immediate elder brother of Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, has died after battling an undisclosed illness. SaharaReporters gathered that DCP Akinade Adejobi passed away on Saturday, April 5, 2025. Sources within the force confirmed to SaharaReporters that DCP…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has missed out on a return to the FIFA Council Seat. Pinnick lost re-election at the extraordinary general assembly held in Cairo on Wednesday, with FIFA president Gianni Infantino in attendance. Africa has seven seats at the FIFA Council, with CAF President…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Despite it happening less than a month ago, Mike Tyson has little recollection of his boxing match against Jake Paul, and his memory regarding the fight is hazy. Fans pleaded with the 58-year-old to pull out of his fight against ‘The Problem Child’ but the boxing legend didn’t listen. Instead, Tyson risked…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The owner of the building that collapsed in Ibadan, Oyo State, Pa Bibire Lamidi, has been hospitalised following the loss of five of his children and grandchildren in the incident. One of Pa Lamidi’s wives, Alhaja Yidiatu Lamidi, in an interview with reporters lamented the incident, saying, “I was not there when…
LAGOS OCTOBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Properties worth millions of naira were destroyed in a fire at the Gusau home of the Speaker, Zamfara State House of Assembly, Hon. Bilyaminu Moriki on Sunday. In a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the House of Assembly, Bello Madaro said no casualty was recorded but properties worth millions…
LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Malam Mele Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), has lost his daughter. Fatima, at the age of 25, passed away on Friday. However, Vice President Kashim Shettima has expressed his heartfelt condolences to Kyari and his family, offering prayers for the peaceful repose…