LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS) -President Donald Trump called President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday and promised to help Nigeria fight the deadly coronavirus. He promised to send ventilators. “President Muhammadu Buhari had a phone conversation with the US President Donald Trump today, the two leaders discussed Nigeria’s efforts to defeat the COVID–19 Pandemic, and President Trump pledged…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS) -Nigeria’s request for $3.4 billion from the International Monetary Fund to fight the devastating effect of the COVID-19 has been approved. The loan which has a maximum repayment period of five years was approved by the Fund’s Executive Board Tuesday. The IMF in a statement said its Executive Board approved the…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS) The League of Maritime Editors and Publishers (LMEP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Rtd Col. Hammed Ali for donating 920,000 bags of contaminated rice to the states in the South West as part of the palliatives over the ravaging…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS) -The Arewa Council of Chiefs in Lagos has slammed the state’s Commissioner of Waterfront, Architect Ahmed Kabiru Abdullahi, for allegedly claiming that the council had been giving ‘several tonnes’ of rice. The council, which said it has not received even a grain of rice from the Lagos State government, warned people…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS) -The Presidency on Tuesday made clarifications on school resumption following the gradual relaxation of the lockdown ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari due to the outbreak of COVID-19. Recall that Buhari had ordered a gradual relaxation of the lockdown starting from Monday next week, but was, however, silent on the reopening of…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS) A 31-year-old nurse, Mrs. Faith Obinna, has accused medical personnel of St. Raphael Divine Mercy Specialist Hospital, Ikorodu, Lagos State, of stealing her baby, moments after delivery. The distraught woman insisted that she delivered twins and that one of them was stolen in the labour room of the hospital before she…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS) The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has said the use of non-medical face masks, which include self-made or commercial masks or face covers made of clothes, only reduce and not prevent spread of diseases. The agency in a statement said face masks made with cotton materials…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS) Guillaume Soro, the former rebel leader running for president in Ivory Coast, was convicted in absentia on Tuesday of embezzlement and sentenced to 20 years in prison, a verdict likely to exclude him from October’s election. The verdict was announced after a trial that lasted only a few hours and was…
