LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Odion Ighalo has been offered a stunning £400,000-a-week deal to reject a transfer to Manchester United and instead stay at parent club Shanghai Shenhua. The boyhood United fan has been on loan at Old Trafford since the January transfer window and his impressive performances had convinced Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to make his…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As many as 10% of recovered coronavirus patients in China tested positive again after being discharged from the hospital, according to a report. Doctors on the front lines of the outbreak in Wuhan, China — where the virus emerged — reported that between 3 and 10% of cured patients became reinfected with…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-30-year old woman, Mrs. Joy Ogundare, will appear before a Federal High Court in Kano today for allegedly implanting a substance suspected to be cocaine in the apartment of a cleric, Pastor Richard Ekenne. Ogundare, who confessed to the crime, said she wanted to plant the cocaine in Ekenne’s house in order…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Guideline for the disbursement of the N50 billion special intervention fund by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been released. The fund is meant to serve as a stimulus package for households and small businesses to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. Governor of the CBN, Mr Godwin Emefiele, had…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Priest of the Roman Catholic, Rev Fr. Charles Okeje-Odogwu, was reportedly found dead in his car with the engine running in front of the parish gate on Tuesday, March 24. The priest before his mysterious death was the Vicar of Holy Cross Parish, Oroma Etiti community in Anambra West Local Government…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has appealed to private companies to make voluntary contributions toward the 120 billion naira ($330 million) that the government says it needs to fight the coronavirus epidemic. “So far, the federal government has made giant strides in the fight but it is clear that the private sector needs to step in…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus. The Prime Minister said he has developed mild symptoms and is self isolating in Downing Street. He is continuing to run the government’s handling of the outbreak, he said. In a video released on his Twitter account, Johnson said: “I have developed mild symptoms…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An empty aircraft operated by KLM from Amsterdam landed at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport (MMIA), Lagos on Thursday to evacuate some Dutch and French nationals from Lagos, Nigeria to Paris, France. It was learnt that the flight was duly approved by the Nigerian Government as it falls among the exemptions granted…
