LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-When President Muhammadu Buhari made his second national broadcast on the coronavirus pandemic on April 13, 2020 and said that the regime’s Homegrown School Feeding Programme, HSFG, would continue even after schools nationwide were shut for the pandemic lockdowns, Nigerians were shocked. People wondered how school children could be fed by the Federal…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ofcom, a regulatory authority for broadcasting in the United Kingdom, has imposed a sanction on Loveworld Limited for airing potentially harmful claims about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Loveworld is a religious television channel owned by Nigerian pastor, Chris Oyakhilome, who has himself championed outrageous claims about the coronavirus outbreak. Ofcom announced in…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The management of four major hospitals in Imo and Abia states have hailed the Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, for extending his COVID-19 palliatives to their various health institutions. They are Holy Rosary Hospital, Emekuku, Owerri, Imo State; Madonna Catholic Hospital,…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate extension of the ongoing movement restrictions in the country by two weeks. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, made this known at the daily Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing on Monday. The extension of the ongoing restriction will be…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This was disclosed in a circular directed to the board’s state officers and titled: “Conducts of 2020 BECE AND JUNE JULY SSCE“. The circular fully reads,“Management is of the view that if the two (02) examinations stated above will be conducted and in good time this year, the Council needs to take…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Despite the disruption of social activities occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic, the throes of incessant cult clash threatening the peace and security of Cross River State reared its ugly head at the weekend when a former chapter chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Ekpenyong Akom and an aide to Governor Ben…
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) has said that it has no intention to mobilize prospective corps members anytime soon, especially as the country is still grappling with the coronavirus pandemic. The Director-General of the Scheme, Brig. Gen. Ibrahim Shuaibu, who made this known in an interview with the Economic Confidential, said…
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari will again address the nation on Monday, May 18, 2020, following the end of the first phase of the gradual easing of the lockdown. The National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force in COVID-19, made this disclosure when he appeared on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. According to him, the…