LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabia’s finance minister on Monday said the kingdom will triple its Value Added Tax and halt monthly handout payments to citizens in new austerity measures amid record low oil prices and a coronavirus-led economic slump. The measures, which could stir public resentment with the cost of living rising, come as the…
LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Manchester United striker Odion Ighalo trained in a park on Monday as players continue to build their fitness ahead of a return to training. The forward jogged around the park in Chesire on Monday despite the uncertainty surrounding his future with United. Pictures uploaded online showed the player was in high spirits…
LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A worker at a fish-processing factory in Ghana’s Atlantic seafront city of Tema infected 533 other workers at the facility with the coronavirus, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo said in a broadcast late on Sunday. Health authorities reported the outbreak late on Friday, but did not provide details. “All 533 persons were infected…
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has continued to reach out to those he described as the most vulnerable people in the society in this period of Coronavirus pandemic, by donating relief materials to them through churches and hospitals. Obi, who…
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian supreme court, Friday, gave a landmark ‘ruling’ in the case brought before it by the former Governor of Abia state and serving senator representing the good people of Abia North, Senator Orji Kalu, protesting his conviction and subsequent conviction by the high court. This incident happened exactly Twelve years after he…
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-– General Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Barr Joseph Daramola has called for reopening of churches closed over the COVID-19 pandemic. Daramola said it was wrong of government authorities to continue closing churches when other aspects of national life have started taking shape. Presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church…
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-– The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) has threatened to embark on a nationwide strike at seaports over the arrest of its members on essential service by the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike. Already, the union has given 48 hours ultimatum, starting from Monday to the Rivers State governor to…
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-– Nigeria’s tally of confirmed cases of COVID-19 rose to 4,399 on Sunday with 248 new cases reported by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The agency announced that 17 additional deaths were recorded across the country. This is the highest daily figure of deaths reported from the virus since the…