LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A man who filmed himself setting fire to a Bible before uploading it to social media has been found shot dead. Antônio Rocha de Sousa was found dead on Wednesday, May 14, having suffered several gunshot wounds to his body. Police are treating his death as murder. 10 days before being killed,…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Human rights lawyer, Malcolm Omirhobo, has called out the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, for describing social media as a terrorist organisation. Recall that the Sultan of Sokoto, speaking during the 7th Executive Committee Meeting of the Northern Traditional Rulers’ Council in Maiduguri, Borno State, called on security agencies to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Social media reactions have trailed the resignation of Ajuri Ngelale, special adviser to President Bola Tinubu on media and publicity. In a statement on September 7, Ngelale said he would be embarking on an “indefinite leave of absence to frontally deal with medical matters affecting his immediate, nuclear family”. He also resigned…
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has issued a list of at least 58 former governors who had embezzled, plundered, misappropriated, or laundered a total of N2.187 trillion from their respective states during the last 25 years, since democracy came to Nigeria. However, one notable name that was missing from the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)- President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, at a book launch in Eko Hotel, Lagos, described social media as a menace that must be regulated. Speaking on Thursday at the presentation of “National Public Discourse: the interplay between empirical evidence and hyperbole,” a book by Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, Tinubu said there…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians are already expressing their outrage over the plea bargain sought by Godwin Emiefele, the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, in the criminal suit filed against him by the federal government. Social media is already agog with reactions from Nigerians who expressed their disappointment over the move by Emiefele…
LAGOS AUGIUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Dele Alake, one of President Bola Tinubu’s ministerial nominees, has said that if he is made the Minister of information and Culture, he will support the strengthening of social media regulations in Nigeria. Alake, who hails from Ekiti State in the South West region and served as the Commissioner of Information and…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-People in Senegal have been experiencing internet disruptions as authorities restrict access to social media amid protests. Many of the most popular platforms around, including Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and YouTube, went dark across the country on the evening of June 1—UK-based internet watchdog NetBlocks has reported. Senegal is the third country…