LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abba Kyari, Kanuri from Borno, who died on 17 April 2020 was a Nigerian politician and former Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari. In 1980, according to different biographical information on him (aggregated by Wikipedia), he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Warwick, and also received…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Preliminary results from government lab experiments show that the coronavirus does not survive long in high temperatures and high humidity, and is quickly destroyed by sunlight, providing evidence from controlled tests of what scientists believed — but had not yet proved — to be true. A briefing on the preliminary results, marked…
By Godwin I. Emefiele, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS) — As many people are now aware, the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in China has rapidly permeated and profoundly changed the world. While this crisis is first and foremost a public health issue, which has claimed the…
By Michael Owhoko LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Journalism in Nigeria is on the decline, and its credibility is steadily being destroyed. The solution lies in the hands of practitioners. They can reverse the trend if they have the courage to admit the problem. But how prepared are they and, what needs to be done? As a…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The auditoriums of Nigeria’s mega churches are empty and their gates are shut as they are forced to observe a government ban on large gatherings to halt the spread of coronavirus. But it took not only threats, but force and arrests for the message to get across. In some cases those in…
By Samuel Akpobome Orovwuje LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The issue of COVID -19 global pandemic has generated one the most emotive discussions in migration, international relations and diplomacy over the past five months – among both current affairs analysts, public health practitioners and national governments. According to the World Health Organisation, (WHO), the total numbers of…
By Jeffery Orji LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The name Biafra remains golden in Nigeria no matter how it sound to the ear. Irrespective all they have contributed to the progress Nigeria, they have always being meted with the highest level of crudeness. History will continue to remember the severity of wound inflicted upon them by the…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At a news conference Thursday, President Donald Trump addressed the question of the hour: How long will it take for things to go back to normal? “People are talking about July, August,” he said. But that inquiry, many doctors and scientists say, is the wrong question. “We need to change the conversation…