LAGOS MAY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tyson Fury claims to have sent fellow British heavyweight Anthony Joshua “a draft contract” for a fight at Wembley Stadium in September. The fierce rivals appeared on course to meet each other in an £80-million mega-fight at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium last year, but both sides declared negotiations were over in October after…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai surfaced on the microblogging platform, Twitter, on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, despite the ban placed on the app by the Federal Government and Nigerians are not having it. The Governor whose last tweet was on June 6, a day after the Nigerian government suspended the…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chief executive officer of Twitter Jack Dorsey has tweeted the Nigerian flag in solidarity with the West African country on its Democracy Day celebration. Mr Dorsey’s tweet on Saturday attracted thousands of retweets in the country where Twitter has been suspended by the authorities, but is still being accessed by many through…
LAGOS MAY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Trump on Thursday ramped up his war with social media companies by signing an executive order that aims to curtail their legal liability protections – two days after Twitter slapped fact check labels to a pair of his tweets about fraud in mail-in voting for the first time. “We’re here today…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Both Senator Shehu Sani and Senator Dino Melaye have taken to Twitter to throw shades at each other over the decamping of the former. Melaye mocked his colleague for leaving the All Progressives Congress (APC) too late. It would be recalled that Melaye was among the 15 Senators who left the APC…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has disowned a recent gloating tweet that announced the imminent revival of a criminal case against outgoing Governor of Ekiti, Ayo Fayose. In a statement on Monday night , spokesman of the commission , Mr Wilson Uwujaren , said the “purported tweet does not represent the…
