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…
LAGOS APRIL 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The dreaded and deadly coronavirus has killed an Assistant Comptroller of Customs, G.A. Bamigboye at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan on Wednesday, April 23, 2020. According to a reliable source who would not want his mentioned, he said Bamigboye was serving in Kano before he decided to come to Ibadan for…
LAGOS APRIL 24TH (NEWSRANGERS) Seventy-two Nigerians awaiting evacuation in Guangzhou city, Guangdong Province of China have tested positive for the coronavirus disease. The results of the tests conducted on 56 Nigerians, which were released on Tuesday, indicated that the affected individuals were asymptomatic, raising concern that they might have infected other people. It was learnt that…
LAGOS APRIL 24TH (NEWSRANGERS) -Missouri became the first state to sue the Chinese government, citing “an appalling campaign of deceit” related to the coronavirus pandemic. The civil lawsuit was filed Tuesday in federal court by GOP state Attorney General Eric Schmitt, claiming Chinese officials are “responsible for the enormous death, suffering, and economic losses they inflicted on the world,…
LAGOS APRIL 24TH (NEWSRANGERS) There was a stampede at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi (NAUTH) over the weekend following the arrival of a man suspected to be a Coronavirus patient. News Express gathered that some doctors and non-medical staff on duty also fled when the patient was brought in to avoid contacting the contagious…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The ravaging Coronavirus has claimed the life of a Deputy Commissioner of Police attached to the Zone 5 headquarters of the Nigeria Police in Benin City. Informed sources confirmed that the Police Officer, a Lawyer from Cross River State, “suddenly fell ill on the 14th of April and was being managed by…