LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A student of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun State, Samuel Adegoke, has reportedly killed himself by drinking a substance suspected to be an insecticide after allegedly losing his school fees and that of his friend to an online betting. Adegoke, who was a National Diploma II student of Electrical Electronic Engineering, reportedly…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Importers and agents have lamented losing about N20 million to demurrage as the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) valuation platform of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) at the two major vehicle importing ports in Lagos, Tin Can Island Port and the PTML Port, has been down for eight days with situation yet to…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Israel Adesanya was knocked out in his second kickboxing fight by Alex Pereira despite controlling most of the bout until the finish. On Saturday in the main event of UFC 281 at Madison Square Garden, history repeated itself. Adesanya was controlling the fight, hurt Pereira twice and was seemingly on the way…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Protests by freight forwarders and customs brokers at the Lagos Port, which began at the weekend, may have cost the country over N200 billion as port activities remained paralysed as of yesterday evening. Port expert and President of National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents, Mr. Lucky Amiwero, told New…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Novak Djokovic said he was disappointed that a court on Sunday dismissed his challenge to a deportation order and accepted his hopes of playing at the Australian Open were dashed. The top-ranked tennis star released a statement shortly after three Federal Court judges unanimously upheld a decision made on Friday by Immigration…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has fallen by nearly $7 billion in a few hours, knocking him down a notch on the list of the world’s richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages took Facebook Inc.’s flagship products offline. A selloff sent the social-media giant’s stock plummeting around 5% on Monday,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Twitter ban in Nigeria has extended to 100 days, and in that time frame the nation has lost N247.61bn. The Federal Government had on June 4 suspended Twitter after the social media platform deleted a tweet by the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Consequently, telcos on June 5 blocked access to…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It’s almost two months since the Nigerian Government shutdown Twitter operation in the country, and findings show that Nigerians have lost more than Jack Dorsey, founder of the tech firm. On June 5, the Federal Government announced that Twitter’s services will no longer be allowed within the territory of the country, a…
