LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has commended Nigeria’s response to the coronavirus pandemic in the country. Guterres, who spoke at a virtual news briefing in New York, the United States on Thursday, singled out Nigeria as one of the developing countries that have “shown a remarkable capacity to respond to the…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Reports reveal growing robbery incidents in Ajah axis especially under the Ajah bridge, Addo road and Ilaje since the commencement of the Lockdown exercise in Lagos. Eyewitness account reveals that the hoodlums are taking advantage of the restriction to attack commuters walking on the deserted roads in broad daylight. This trend is causing…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The US on Friday set a new record for the number of COVID-19 deaths in one day with 1,480 dead, the most of any country since the pandemic began. That topped the record set by the US the previous day with 1,169 deaths. More than 57,000 people have died from COVID-19, and…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former director-general of the Nigeria Law School Dr Kole Abayomi has died in the United Kingdom (UK) after contracting coronavirus. Abayomi died on Thursday, April 3, a statement by the secretary of the Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (BOSAN), Seyi Sowemimo, SAN, disclosed. “The BOSAN Secretariat wishes to announce the death…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lionel Messi’s £11million private jet has been forced to make an emergency landing at Brussels airport due to a fault with plane. According to the Sun, Barcelona star’s plane was making its way to Tenerife in the Canary Islands when it suffered from issues with its landing gear. The aircraft grounded at…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government on Friday hinted that the lockdown of States would end when citizens fully comply with preventive measures to curtail COVID-19. Officially, Nigeria has recorded 190 cases of coronavirus and two deaths. The government noted that it would be difficult to defeat coronavirus if citizens failed to observe directives meant…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The US economy shed 701,000 jobs last month as the coronavirus crisis brought the nation’s nine-year hiring streak to a screeching halt, new federal data show. The losses in non-farm payrolls reflected a massive contraction from February, when the economy added a revised total of 275,000 jobs, the federal Bureau of Labor…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-News surrounding the COVID-19 out break in China keeps on getting darker and darker. The Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China has made a preliminary announcement about how the government is planning to compensate the poor victims of COVID-19 in Wuhan, Hubei province. Liu Ken the minister of finance…
