LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the death toll has overwhelmed hospitals and morgues, bodies have been abandoned in the streets or left to decay in houses, cargo trailers, and parking lots. The smell of the exposed corpses sticks like bile in the throat, and flocks of vultures wheel above the city waiting their chance to feed…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-African officials are confronting China publicly and in private over racist mistreatment of Africans in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, and the U.S. says African-Americans have been targeted too. Some Africans in the commercial hub have reported being evicted or discriminated against amid coronavirus fears. And a U.S. Embassy security alert on…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno has said his country’s troops, who have been deployed to fight jihadists in the Lake Chad region and the Sahel, will no longer take part in military operations outside national borders. “Our troops have died for Lake Chad and the Sahel. From today, no Chadian soldiers will…
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ijaw Stakeholders for Good Governance, ISGG, has revealed that some Niger Delta leaders sponsoring falsehood and malicious publications against the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio were after the resources and dubuous contracts in the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC. In a statement issued yesterday in Warri, Delta State,…
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No than 600 Iranians have died from the consumption of high-concentrated alcohol believing it protects against the coronavirus. Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted a spokesperson for the Iranian judiciary, Ghulam Hussein Ismaili, as saying that the number of deaths due to drinking neat alcohol had reached a disturbing figure, adding that…
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has abruptly switched its guidance for use of a drug touted by President Donald Trump as a possible treatment for COVID-19, dropping its reference to anecdotal dosages to say simply that there are no approved drugs for dealing with the disease. The CDC’s online advice for…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The African Development Bank Group on Wednesday announced the creation of the COVID-19 Response Facility to assist regional member countries in fighting the pandemic. The Facility is the latest measure taken by the Bank to respond to the pandemic and will be the institution’s primary channel for its efforts to address the…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Examination Council (NECO) says it has not postponed the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) and the 2020 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) because of the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. The examination body said only the National Common Entrance (NCEE) has been postponed indefinitely due to the pandemic. Its Head…