LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of protesters on foot and in vehicles converged Wednesday on Michigan’s capital to rally against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders in the state. “Operation Gridlock,” organized by the Michigan Conservative Coalition, created a huge bumper-to-bumper traffic jam around the Michigan Capitol Building in Lansing, Fox 2 Detroit reported. Meshawn Maddock, an…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has mandated the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control to conduct 4,000 tests per day. NCDC Director-General, Chikwe Ihekweazu, who disclosed this yesterday at the 11th joint national briefing of the Presidential Taskforce Force on COVID-19, said Buhari had mandated the NCDC to increase testing in Lagos to 2,000; FCT,…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, on Wednesday said he was still under isolation for testing positive to COVID-19 and is yet to be cleared of the disease. El-Rufai, who also chaired a virtual meeting of the State Executive Council for the first time since he was diagnosed, said he…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With reports reaching us, a gang of armed robbers known as One Million Boys have threatened to attack neighbourhoods in Lagos as revealed in a letter they sent. The letter which shows a description of a gun and a knife warns residents of Ogba and environs to beware and comply with their…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-olu has ordered both the Lagos State traffic management agency (LASTMA) and Vehicle Inspector Officials(VIO) to release all impounded vehicles in their custody with minor offence from March 1. He made this known via a statement on his official Twitter handle where he noted that this will reduce…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed with condoms and disposable thermometers, the outreach workers ventured out to streets in South Los Angeles notorious for sex trade activity. They expected that some women would still be working on this chilly Friday night in early April. But what they saw caught them off guard. Two weeks into the mandated…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governors of the 19 states in the North under the aegis of the Northern States Governors’ Forum have said they would not be shutting down the region despite the spread of the Coronavirus Disease in the country. The Governors made their position known in a statement after their meeting on Monday. A…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Premier League clubs are all in total agreement that the season needs to be completed amid the coronavirus pandemic. That is according to Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson, who claims it is important for the current campaign to end without “artificial” methods of determining places. The league has been suspended since March…