LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)- The House of Representatives has insisted that the proposed two-month free electricity for Nigerians be implemented to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on citizens. The DisCos had announced that they were working with the federal government to provide free two-month electricity as palliative to Nigerians but the Transmission Company…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)- The latest Premier League club meeting has taken place via a four-hour video conference call and reports say a vote is set to be held on the plan to restart the 2019-20 season. Details from the ‘project restart’ plan was the primary focus during the meeting, as a vote is set…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)- Nigerian drummer and composer Tony Allen, who worked closely with musician Fela Kuti as a pioneer of the Afrobeat genre, died in Paris aged 79, his manager said. The Afrobeat sound, which rose to prominence in Nigeria in the 1970s, combined organ riffs with West African drum patterns and brass instruments….
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)- With Covid-19 cases on a sharp rise in Tanzania, there is now widespread speculation that three of its lawmakers who died in a space of 11 days might have contracted the virus. It’s a concern which has prompted the country’s leading opposition party Chadema to call for a suspension of parliament….
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, has said that bed spaces for patients of Coronavirus Disease are no longer readily available in Lagos State. Ihekweazu said this on Thursday when he spoke at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja….
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Kano, Nigeria’s second most populous state, Thursday returned a daily record of 80 confirmed cases of the coronavirus to overtake Lagos for the first time as the state with the highest daily infections. Also, it was yet another record day for Nigeria with a daily high of 204 confirmed cases and 7…