LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A major technology outage grounded flights, hampered public transit systems and disrupted operations at banks and hospitals around the globe Friday in an incident a cybersecurity firm blamed on a faulty system update. CrowdStrike, a U.S. firm that advertises being used by over half of Fortune 500 companies, said one of its…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Britain woke Friday to the scene of a political earthquake. The opposition Labour Party, after 14 years in the political wilderness, has handed a brutal defeat to the ruling Conservatives. Party leader Keir Starmer is now certain to become prime minister in the coming hours, replacing his Conservative Party counterpart, Rishi Sunak,…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of migrant care workers have been threatened with deportation, despite doing nothing wrong, after the Home Office took enforcement action against their employers. In one case, a brother and sister from India who paid a recruitment agency £18,000 to secure care jobs in the UK, only to find they had been…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The hope to migrate by health and care workers with their dependents from Nigeria and other countries to the United Kingdom have been dashed with the ban to that effect on Monday. The ban by the UK Government is coming over two months after similar stoppage of dependents migrating to the UK…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-France has joined a list of countries that have imposed immigration restrictions on international students (including Nigerians) with new legislation that will stop them from bringing their families to the country. The law passed by the parliament on Friday provides a new toughening immigration policy that makes it more difficult for migrants to…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Nations Migration Agency, International Organization for Migration (IOM), has advised potential migrants to be cautious of a syndicate that specializes in offering fake employment letters to Nigerians seeking to work in the United Kingdom, UK. Urging them to seek out proper information before embarking on any migration, the IOM disclosed…
LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has commended the United Kingdom for their respect for the rule of law and congratulated Nigeria’s legal team that handled the case against Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) Ltd. In a statement issued by his media aid, Michael Nwolisa, on Wednesday, Obi,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, has emerged as the world’s most cryptocurrency-aware nation, according to the results of a global survey conducted by ConsenSys and YouGov. The survey aimed to provide insights into how various countries perceive cryptocurrencies and the broader Web3 ecosystem. The primary findings of the poll suggest that Nigeria and…