LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-– Raymond Dokpesi Jnr, chairman of DAAR Communications Plc, owners of Africa Independent Television, has tested positive to coronavirus. “I got a call this morning confirming the result is COVID-19 positive. I am leaving now to the Gwagwalada Isolation Centre for treatment and hope to be back in two weeks. Many of…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-– President Muhammadu Buhari’s COVID-19 speech is reproduced in full below: ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE CUMULATIVE LOCKDOWN ORDER OF LAGOS AND OGUN STATES AS WELL AS THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY ON COVID- 19 PANDEMIC AT THE STATE HOUSE, ABUJA, MONDAY, 27th APRIL,…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Five of the almajiri students returned to Kaduna from Kano have tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Last week, governors in northern states agreed to ban the almajiri system as part of efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19. The system is a form of education that requires young children to…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mohammed, one of the sons of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has recovered from COVID-19. Mohammed tested negative twice for coronavirus on Monday. Atiku disclosed that he just received the good news and will be discharged from the Abuja Isolation center soon. A close family friend to Mohammed confirmed this on his…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 15 persons (11 females and four males) infected with COVID-19 in Lagos have recovered and discharged. The patients were treated at the isolation centers. So far, 138 persons have recovered in Lagos, the epicenter of the pandemic in Nigeria. “The 15 discharged patients include one Indian national. 11 were discharged…
LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Nigerian Pastor TB Joshua has spent four days at an undisclosed “prayer mountain” to “present the nations” to God in prayer over the Coronavirus Disease. The cleric was notably absent from the usual Sunday broadcast from Emmanuel TV’s studios on April 26, 2020, but clips of him “crying unto God” amidst…
LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)- A suspected COVID-19 patient on Sunday afternoon ran to a police station for help after several attempts to reach the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) failed. The woman, it was gathered, had tried to reach the COVID-19 toll-free lines since she started developing symptoms without success. Desperate for survival, she…
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…