LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Anyone who engaged children under 12 yeas as domestic workers in Edo state now risks seven years imprisonment. Also, anyone convicted for recruiting or receiving any child or adult for force labour or even permitting any place or premises for such act, is liable to five years imprisonment and a fine of…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Each morning at a crowded bus station east of Nairobi, Kenyans load their bags on to minibuses emblazoned with the faces of pop stars and Jesus, heading to their villages in the hope of escaping the coronavirus. “I am going back home because of corona,” said Amina Barasa, her yellow headscarf standing…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The majority of rapid test coronavirus test kits supplied by China to Spain and the Czech Republic are faulty, local news outlets reported. Up to 80 percent of the 150,000 portable, quick coronavirus test kits China delivered to the Czech Republic earlier this month were faulty, according to local Czech news site Expats.cz. The…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian and an indigene of Kano Hajia Laila Abubakar Ali who is living in the United States has reportedly died of coronavirus. The death of the 60-year-old woman was revealed by Salihu Yakasai, spokesman to Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano state, early Thursday. Yakasai said the deceased was the elder sister…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party, on Wednesday, said the banning of some media houses from covering activities in the Presidential Villa was unjustified. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, had in a statement on Tuesday restricted the coverage of activities in the Villa to 13 media…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Special Assistant to the Lagos State Governor on Health, Dr Tunde Ajayi, has disclosed that six of the patients at the Infectious Disease Hospital have recovered. Ajayi via his twitter handle, @thetundeajai, said the patients would be discharged soon. “Six of our #COVID19 inpatients have recovered and will be discharged soon….
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government must think creatively and come up with ways of stabilising the Nigerian economy in the face of the negative economic impact of the Covid-19, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila has said. The Speaker said the House had on Tuesday passed the Emergency Economic Stimulus…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Boko Haram jihadists have killed nearly 100 Chadian soldiers in a seven-hour attack on an island army base, in their deadliest assault yet on the country’s armed forces. President Idriss Deby told Chad television he travelled to the scene of the attack on Tuesday to pay tribute to the 92 dead soldiers,…
