LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-olu has ordered both the Lagos State traffic management agency (LASTMA) and Vehicle Inspector Officials(VIO) to release all impounded vehicles in their custody with minor offence from March 1. He made this known via a statement on his official Twitter handle where he noted that this will reduce…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed with condoms and disposable thermometers, the outreach workers ventured out to streets in South Los Angeles notorious for sex trade activity. They expected that some women would still be working on this chilly Friday night in early April. But what they saw caught them off guard. Two weeks into the mandated…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governors of the 19 states in the North under the aegis of the Northern States Governors’ Forum have said they would not be shutting down the region despite the spread of the Coronavirus Disease in the country. The Governors made their position known in a statement after their meeting on Monday. A…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Premier League clubs are all in total agreement that the season needs to be completed amid the coronavirus pandemic. That is according to Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson, who claims it is important for the current campaign to end without “artificial” methods of determining places. The league has been suspended since March…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)- In the wake of the COVID-19 threat, a Social Security and Health Insurance Law for all Nigerians is the most important issue at the moment, the Human Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) said on Wednesday. In a letter addressed to President, Mohammadu Buhari on Wednesday, the group urged the Nigerian…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Denmark began reopening schools on Wednesday after a month-long closure over the novel coronavirus, becoming the first country in Europe to do so. Nurseries, kindergartens and primary schools were reopening, according to an AFP correspondent, after they were closed on March 12 in an effort to curb the COVID-19 epidemic. However classes…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, said her ministry has only taken delivery of 40 trucks of rice out of the 150 seized by the Nigeria Customs Service. President Muhammadu Buhari had last month ordered distribution of 150 trucks of rice seized by the Customs to the…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nine shops were razed by fire on Tuesday on the Peace Estate, off the Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos State. PUNCH Metro learnt that the fire, which started from one of the 19 shops in a row, spread to eight other shops and destroyed goods worth millions of naira. It was gathered that the…
