LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Prophet T.B. Joshua, claimed he was misunderstood about his prediction on when the raging coronavirus (COVID-19) would end. Reports had said he gave a timeline of 27 March. Now he has fine-tuned his prediction. He said what he meant was that the virus…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Dr. Samson Olasupo Ayokunle, on Sunday, narrated how he escaped plane crash that would have taken his life in the United States on his way back to Nigeria in one of his international engagements in February. Ayokunle who broke the silence during his online Sunday…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday, March 29, imposed a total lockdown of Lagos and Ogun states, and the order also extended to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). In his address to the nation, the President stated that based on the advice of the Federal Ministry of Health and the NCDC, it became…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has written a litigation threat to the Punch newspaper asking it to retract an alleged libelous publication against the acting Chairman of the commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu. The EFCC is also demanding an unreserved apology from The Punch over the alleged defamatory publication. The Economic…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-When the coronavirus swept into Scandinavian countries, Norway and Denmark scrambled to place extensive restrictions on their borders to stem the outbreak. Sweden, their neighbor, took a decidedly different path. While Denmark and Norway closed their borders, restaurants and ski slopes and told all students to stay home this month, Sweden shut…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-More than 20 million Nigerians on Monday went into lockdown in sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest city Lagos and the capital Abuja, as the continent struggles to curb the spread of coronavirus. President Muhammadu Buhari ordered a two-week “cessation of all movements” in key cities to ward off an explosion of cases in Africa’s…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Due to the widespread of Coronavirus epidemic in Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari has consented to let go of some individuals from correctional centres to reduce congestion which may likely have an impact on the global epidemic in the country. It is understood that President Buhari had recently constituted a Presidential Committee for…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Homicide detectives from the State Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Panti, Yaba, Lagos State, have launched a manhunt for a security guard, identified as Shina, for allegedly shooting his girlfriend, Aishat Adedimeji, to death at the Odogunyan, Ikorodu area of the metropolis. Shina and Adedimeji (28) had been dating for years…
