LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Daar communications team heading to Edo state to cover governorship election has been involved in a fatal accident around Auchi. Three of the operatives, including reporter, Omor Bazuaye, is reported to be seriously injured. Daar communications are the owners of African Independent Television (AIT) and Raypower. Details loading…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Founder of DAAR Communications Plc, Raymond Dokpesi, has recovered from coronavirus (COVID-19) infection and has been discharged. Dokpesi’s recovery comes two weeks after him and seven other members of his family tested positive for COVID-19, four days after his son, Raymond Dokpesi Jnr, announced he had the disease. The media mogul, in…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has strongly condemned the suspension of the licences of African Independent Television (AIT) and RayPower FM by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). Speaking with newsmen on Saturday at the domestic wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, Obi said that it…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers has expressed grave worries over the sudden revocation of the operating licence of DAAR Communications, owners of African Independent Television and Ray Power FM, by the Federal Government. In a statement issued by its Publicity Secretary, Olumide Iyanda, the Guild urged the National Broadcasting Commission to…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Television Authority has been removed from the largest digital satellite television service platform in Europe, Sky Limited. A visit to Sky’s website showed that NTA had been barred indefinitely from airing on Channel 794. A message on Sky’s website read in part, “794: NTA International; currently temporarily removed from EPG…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Vice-President and 2019 election Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has reacted to the suspension of the license of Daar Communication Plc, promoter of AIT, RAY POWER FM by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). Atiku made the reaction in a series of tweets on his official and…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has named the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus; former National Publicity Secretary, PDP, Olisa Metuh, and founder of Raypower, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, as some of the treasury looters of the nation under the party’s administration. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,…