LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Emir of Daura, Alhaji Umar Farouk Umar, has been hospitalised at the Intensive Care Unit of the Federal Medical Centre in Kastina State. Daura is the hometown of President Muhammadu Buhari. A palace source told SaharaReporters on Tuesday that Umar was rushed to the hospital on Monday night in a critical condition. The emir…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A medical researcher said to be on the “verge of making very significant” coronavirus findings was found shot to death over the weekend in Pennsylvania, officials said. Bing Liu, 37, a researcher for the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, was found dead Saturday inside a home in Ross Township, north of…
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The Lagos State Government has said about 3,000 samples are yet to be tested for COVID-19 in the state. In a statement on Sunday, the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, noted that the development was due to a lack of reagent for molecular testing. According to him, the Lagos State Government…
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria Monday added 245 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus, a new daily record. Six new deaths were also logged. Lagos, the epicenter of the pandemic in the country and most populous state topped with 76 new cases. The tally for Nigeria according to data released by the Nigeria Center for Disease…
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A seasoned journalist in Sokoto State and Editor of Newsdiaryonline, Abdallah El-Kurebe, has tested positive for Coronavirus. PRNigeria learnt that the prolific Editor contacted the deadly virus from a fellow journalist who had tested positive for COVID-19. The journalist, who is now late, died at a Sokoto Hospital, two days after he…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Persistent reports have suggested that some patients who have recovered from the novel coronavirus have relapsed, but a South Korean study suggests this is not the case. Scientists investigated after 277 patients in the country were reported as having fallen ill or tested positive a second time. But the researchers said that…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Out of the 59 active cases of coronavirus in Kaduna State, 50 were found among repatriated Almajirai pupils from Kano State, the state’s Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has said. Governor El-Rufai on Twitter announced that the state now has recorded 50 cases from the repatriated Almajirai, adding that the total number of…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)- People with little or no knowledge of history become jittery when they are confronted by challenging events. Jamaican political activist Marcus Garvey said “a people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” In the past six months, the world has been battling…