LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Burundian president died from the coronavirus, according to medics at the hospital where he was flown to following his death. The country’s government had announced Pierre Nkurunziza’s cause of death as from a heart attack. A medical source at the Karusi hospital where Nkurunziza died, has confirmed the president was in ‘respiratory…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska said on Friday she had tested positive for the novel coronavirus amid a rise in infections. Zelenska, 42, added that her husband, President Volodymyr Zelensky, and their two children tested negative. “Today I’ve received a positive COVID-19 test result,” she said on Facebook. On Thursday, Ukrainian authorities…
LAGOS JUNE 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, has been moved to Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, for intensive care after testing positive for Coronavirus earlier this week. According to insider sources, the governor is being treated at his home in Abuja with a sizable number of medical personnel on the ground to ensure he gets…
In an interview, Austin Avuru, CEO, Seplat Petroleum Development Company, speaks on the impact of Covid-19 and falling oil prices on Nigeria’s economy. How is Nigeria’s oil and gas industry faring in the face of the current pandemic? AUSTIN AVURU : The combination of the current pandemic and the rapid decline in demand for crude oil…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has declared the country “coronavirus-free” thanks to prayers by citizens. “The corona disease has been eliminated thanks to God,” Mr Magufuli told worshippers in a church in the capital, Dodoma. The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern over the government’s strategy on Covid-19. The government has stopped…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria chartered a special flight between Abuja and Dhaka on Sunday to collect a small dose of the Bangladesh-produced anti-viral drug remdesivir in an effort to treat one of its officials suffering from Covid-19, officials in Dhaka said. Dpa International reported that the plane returned home nearly 20 minutes after landing at…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Sunday, announced that the country has recorded 260 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 12,486. The NCDC disclosed this on its verified Twitter handle and website on Sunday night. The centre also said that the number…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Madagascar’s education minister has been fired over plans to order more than $2m (£1.6m) worth of sweets for schoolchildren. Rijasoa Andriamanana said pupils would be given three lollipops each to mask the “bitter” aftertaste of an untested herbal remedy for coronavirus. The plan was called off after objections from Madagascar’s president. President…