LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)- A coalition of Nigerian legal practitioners has dragged the People’s Republic of China to court over the effects of the Coronavirus outbreak on the West African giant. The lawyers are demanding $200 billion as damages for the “loss of lives, economic strangulation, trauma, hardship, social disorientation, mental torture and disruption of…
LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The coronavirus death toll in Israel reached 200 on Sunday afternoon, with one woman dying since the previous evening, as the number of COVID-19 cases in the country rose to 15,398, an increase of 250 over the previous 24 hours. The woman died at Sheba Hospital in Tel Hashomer, outside Tel…
LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The holy month of Ramadan is marked by the observance of fasting from sun rise to sun set, increased religious and social gatherings whereMuslim communities unite to break their fast together (iftar), and increased attendance at mosques for congregational prayers and listening tosermons (tafsir). It is also customary for some muslim…
LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Nigerian seaport has recorded its first case of Coronavirus through a staff of one of the terminal operators at Tin Can Island Port Lagos. There were initial reports that the COVID-19 patient was a staff of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) but this position was refuted by the authority in a press…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has recorded 114 new cases of coronavirus in the country, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 1095 with 32 deaths recorded and 208 patients discharged after fully recovering from the virus and testing negative twice. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC announced the new development on Friday evening…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barely two days to the end of the second round of a 14-day shutdown of the nation’s capital, Abuja as well as Lagos and Ogun states, the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control NCDC has hinted at the likelihood of the extension of the current lockdown, saying Nigeria has not gotten to the…
LAGOS APRIL 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)- A Chinese citizen journalist who vanished while probing a coronavirus cover-up in Wuhan has reappeared two months later, praising the police who detained him. In February, Li Zehua, who also goes by Kcriss Li, had interviewed Wuhan residents infected with the coronavirus and was investigating allegations of a local effort to…
LAGOS APRIL 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Doctors in the U.S., the world’s worst hit country by the coronavirus have found a new symptom for the virus. The symptom lies in the toes or fingers of the afflicted, especially in white people. It is called the Covid toe. The good part is that it appears in both asymptomatic and…