LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Labour Party Presidential Candidate during the 2023 election, Mr Peter Obi, on Sunday worshipped with the students of Holy Rosary College in Nsugbe, marking a significant occasion as the Holy Rosary Sisters celebrate 100 years since their foundation by Bishop Joseph Shanahan in 1924. The college at Nsugbe is also celebrating its…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Manufacturing Company, Gilead Sciences, has announced that cheaper versions of the “gamechanger” HIV prevention drug, lenacapavir, will be made available in 120 low and middle-income countries. Currently, the drug is priced at $42,250 annually in the US under the brand name Sunlenca, but researchers believe it could be produced for as low…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of supporters on Saturday joined Tinok Andrew Nok, a senatorial aspirant in the 2023 general election, as she moved from the New Nigeria Peoples Party to the Labour Party in Kaduna State. Tinok, the younger sister of former Kaduna State Commissioner of Education, Prof. Andrew Nok, expressed her conviction that the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rev. Fr. Obiora Ugochukwu, CEO of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, revealed during Peter Obi’s visit to the school that Obi had accidentally overpaid the hospital’s School of Nursing by ₦2.5 million. Obi had pledged ₦20 million to 16 medical institutions, paying in installments, but the hospital received ₦2.5 million extra. Fr….
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Trump urged Israel to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities, and blasted President Biden for urging the Jewish state to exercise restraint. “I listened to Biden yesterday … they asked him, what do you think about Iran, would you hit Iran and he goes ‘as long as they don’t hit the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cholera claimed the lives of 350 people between January and September in Nigeria, according to data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) released on Monday. At the same point in 2023, the death toll from this disease stood at 106, representing a 239% increase over the same period….
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran’s supreme leader has decorated the Revolutionary Guards aerospace commander for the Islamic republic’s missile attacks on arch-foe Israel, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s website said on Sunday. “Ayatollah Khamenei presented the Order of Fath (“Conquest” in Farsi) to General Amirali Hajizadeh, commander of the Guards Aerospace Force,” it said. The decoration was bestowed…
LAGOS OCTOBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South African pay TV consumers are fast dumping DStv as access to affordable, uncapped Broadband improves, just as online streaming services gain popularity in the Southern African economy. ConsumerConnect gathered DStv parent company MultiChoice’s annual report for the year ended March 31, 2024, indicated that active DStv subscribers in South Africa (SA)…