LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of the House of Representaives have called on the Federal Government halt flight from UK,Spain, Italy,China, South Korea where there are high cases of dreaded coronavirus. The lawmakers made the resolution on Tuesday while adopting a motion of urgent national importance by Onofiok Luke(Akwa-Ibom, PDP). They also resolved that only Nigerian…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Abuja chapter, have announced they would be embarking on an indefinite strike beginning from today March 17th, amidst the Coronavirus pandemic. Rising from an emergency meeting this morning, the doctors in a statement released by its president, Roland Aigbovo, said they deliberated extensively on the health…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, held its state congress in Benin City yesterday to elect officers to pilot affair of the party for the next four years. At press time, accreditation of party delegates for the election had been concluded and voting was about to commence….
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two daughters of Chief Emiola Adesina, Director of Sports in the Old Western State and proprietor of Subuola Nursery and Primary School in Ibadan have been kidnapped. Their abductors are demanding a ransom of N100m, according to a family source. A close friend of the family, Professor Tunji Olopa, disclosed that the…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 800 inmates broke out of four prisons in São Paulo, Brazil, after the Justice Department announced it was postponing a work program that allowed inmates to leave jails amid the coronavirus panic. The massive jailbreak came as Brazil confirmed its first coronavirus-linked death Tuesday, a 62-year-old man who died Monday afternoon…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said on Tuesday that the new case of Coronavirus came in through British Airways. The PUNCH reports that Nigeria recorded another case of COVID-19 in Lagos State, Nigeria on Tuesday. The affected person is a 30-year-old Nigerian lady, who returned from the United…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) will consider a plan that would see the Champions League and Europa League finish in just four days following the coronavirus outbreak in Europe. Newsmen reports that both the Champions League and Europa League fixtures have been postponed this week. The quarter-final draw for both…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate postponement of the National Sports Festival, NSF, Edo 2020. This is as a precautionary measure to curb spread of COVID-19. This is coming even as the Lagos State Ministry of Health early Tuesday confirmed the third case of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Lagos. The Minister of…
