LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Twelve of the 127 Osun State indigenes who returned to the state last week have tested positive to coronavirus, with state officials saying the figure is likely to increase as 80 other results are being expected. Seven buses brought the 127 Nigerians from Abidjan, Cote d’voire and they were intercepted by the…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has announced that all markets in states where a lockdown was imposed (Lagos, FCT and Ogun) will be allowed to open between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm daily. The National Co-ordinator of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Aliyu Sani, said this on Wednesday during a briefing by members…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Russian military transport plane is on its way to the US, carrying medical equipment and other supplies required to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The shipment, cited by many as a public relations coup for Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, began on Wednesday following a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump forty-three…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the recent outbreak of COVID-19 in Nigeria, the Israeli government has evacuated Two hundred and seventy-four of her citizens from Nigeria to Israel. A statement signed by the Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Shimon Ben- Shoshan, says the Israelis were being evacuated to Tel Aviv, on board Air Peace Boeing 777-300…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Dutch officials have recalled tens of thousands of masks imported from China and distributed to hospitals battling the coronavirus outbreak because they do not meet quality standards. They received a delivery of masks from a Chinese manufacturer on March 21, the health ministry said in a statement. The masks did not…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals has told the Federal Government to pay health workers fighting the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) N100,000 special hazard allowance. The union also demanded life insurance cover for health workers. In a statement jointly signed by the National President of the union, Dr Obinna Ogbonna, and…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-China’s “wet markets” have reopened – selling bats, pangolins and dogs for human consumption. The move is dangerous as scientists believe that the Covid-19 causing coronavirus first lurked in a bat in China and hopped to another animal, before getting passed on to humans. Various reports suggest that a 55-year-old man from…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The former Chelsea star retired from international duty following Nigeria’s first-round exit at the 2018 World Cup, but he has now reversed that decision. Inter Milan star, Victor Moses has revealed he is making a return to the national team almost two years after quitting the Super Eagles. Moses shocked Nigerians when…
