LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Mr. Godwin Emefiele, has announced that the apex bank is ready to support researchers, science-based institutions, and biotechnology firms with N100bn grant in the quest for a homegrown vaccine to fight Corona Virus Disease in Nigeria. The apex bank governor, who spoke at…
LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Yobe State Government has put the number of mystery deaths in the state as at May 11, 2020 at 471, not stating the period from when the counting began and the towns covered. The Yobe State COVID-19 Rapid Response Team stated this in a terse report obtained by The Eagle Online…
LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria on Tuesday recorded a massive drop in the rate of infection from the Coronavirus Disease. This was from the figures released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control late on Tuesday. The figures showed a total of 146 infections all over the country. In the last one week, the country had…
LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has ordered the importation of the much publicized Madagascar’s coronavirus herbal cure to Nigeria. Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, disclosed this during a briefing in Abuja on Monday. His words, “Madagascar has made allocations to various countries and sent them to Guinea Bissau….
LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A worker at a fish-processing factory in Ghana’s Atlantic seafront city of Tema infected 533 other workers at the facility with the coronavirus, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo said in a broadcast late on Sunday. Health authorities reported the outbreak late on Friday, but did not provide details. “All 533 persons were infected…
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-– Nigeria’s tally of confirmed cases of COVID-19 rose to 4,399 on Sunday with 248 new cases reported by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The agency announced that 17 additional deaths were recorded across the country. This is the highest daily figure of deaths reported from the virus since the…
LAGOS MA 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Churches may not be back to normal by the end of the year, a leading bishop has warned. Bishop Sarah Mullally DBE, who is currently the most senior female bishop in the Church of England, as well as being a former Chief Nursing Officer, said that there would have to be significant…
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 100 people are said to have died in Azare, Bauchi State, over the last one week owing to Coronavirus complications. Azare is the second largest town in the state after Bauchi, the state capital. Ibrahim Mohammed Baba, former lawmaker representing Katagum Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, made…