LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A federal judge will start hearing claims this week from the Justice Department and a group of states that Google abused its power as a monopoly over online search services. Google is synonymous with looking for information online and has leveraged its massively successful search tool to build a giant business spanning […]
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Google plans to train 20,000 Nigerian women and youth in digital skills and provide a grant of 1.2 billion naira ($1.6 million) to help the government’s create one million digital jobs in the country, its Africa executives said on Tuesday. Nigeria plans to create digital jobs for its teeming youth population, Vice […]
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria asked Google to block the use of YouTube channels and livestreams by banned groups and terrorist organizations in the country, Information Minister Lai Mohammed said on Thursday. Nigeria has been exploring ways to regulate social media usage in the country, Africa’s most populous. The country is home to millions of internet […]
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has announced plans to regulate internet companies like Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram (all owned by Meta), Twitter, Google and TikTok in a draft shared by the country’s internet regulator. This information, released by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) on Monday, can be viewed on its website and Twitter page. Just […]
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Former US president Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against tech giants Google, Twitter and Facebook, claiming that he is the victim of censorship. The class action lawsuit also targets the three companies’ CEOs. Mr Trump was suspended from his social accounts in January over public safety concerns in the wake […]
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government says its directive that Over the Top (OTT) and social media platforms operating in the country must register and obtain license to operate is in conformity with global trend. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said this on Friday when he featured on Nigerian Television Authority […]
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Google on Saturday revealed that Nigerian ladies top the search rating on how to make this year Valentine’s Day memorable for their lovers. Valentine’s Day is celebrated every February 14 around the world and is associated with love. Google, in a statement in Lagos by its communication officer Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade said the […]
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Google News Initiative Journalism Emergency Relief Fund (JERF) has announced it is supporting 16 Nigerian publications with funding. Launched in April, the JERF serves to help local publishers facing financial hardship as a result of the economic and advertising downturn. “JERF has provided $39.5m in funding to publishers in 115 countries […]
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Comrade Timi Frank, political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that since Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has sued him, it is time for the Vice President to prove several allegations he made against former President Goodluck Jonathan and former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, […]
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-You’d assume that being worth $103 billion (£80.8 billion) would mean that all of the niggling professional regrets that you otherwise carry around with you would be sandblasted away. Apparently not, though. Bill Gates is still fairly upset about his “greatest mistake ever”, though admittedly his ‘greatest mistake ever’ is probably of […]
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