LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)- In the wake of the COVID-19 threat, a Social Security and Health Insurance Law for all Nigerians is the most important issue at the moment, the Human Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) said on Wednesday. In a letter addressed to President, Mohammadu Buhari on Wednesday, the group urged the Nigerian…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Denmark began reopening schools on Wednesday after a month-long closure over the novel coronavirus, becoming the first country in Europe to do so. Nurseries, kindergartens and primary schools were reopening, according to an AFP correspondent, after they were closed on March 12 in an effort to curb the COVID-19 epidemic. However classes…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, said her ministry has only taken delivery of 40 trucks of rice out of the 150 seized by the Nigeria Customs Service. President Muhammadu Buhari had last month ordered distribution of 150 trucks of rice seized by the Customs to the…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nine shops were razed by fire on Tuesday on the Peace Estate, off the Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos State. PUNCH Metro learnt that the fire, which started from one of the 19 shops in a row, spread to eight other shops and destroyed goods worth millions of naira. It was gathered that the…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has said that people with over N5, 000 in their bank account will not benefit from the palliatives to cushion the effect of the lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The government also said that it will be using the mobile networks, to know people that top…
By Godwin I. Emefiele, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS) — As many people are now aware, the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in China has rapidly permeated and profoundly changed the world. While this crisis is first and foremost a public health issue, which has claimed the…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Videos of some residents attacking a bus conveying loaves of bread and a truck conveying bags of rice in Lagos and Abuja respectively, has surfaced online, amidst the extended lockdown in Abuja, Ogun and Lagos state . This is coming after Nigeria’s President Mohammadu Buhari announced an extended 14-day lockdown across Abuja,…
By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa. LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Para Powerlifting Coach, Mr. Fatabiri Gbassa has made a passionate appeal to government, sports authorities and Nigerians to save him from a yet to be diagnosed ailment. Mr. Gbassa who is a coach with the Bayelsa State Council has been bedridden for over two years now and…