LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the death toll has overwhelmed hospitals and morgues, bodies have been abandoned in the streets or left to decay in houses, cargo trailers, and parking lots. The smell of the exposed corpses sticks like bile in the throat, and flocks of vultures wheel above the city waiting their chance to feed…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-African officials are confronting China publicly and in private over racist mistreatment of Africans in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, and the U.S. says African-Americans have been targeted too. Some Africans in the commercial hub have reported being evicted or discriminated against amid coronavirus fears. And a U.S. Embassy security alert on…
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No than 600 Iranians have died from the consumption of high-concentrated alcohol believing it protects against the coronavirus. Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted a spokesperson for the Iranian judiciary, Ghulam Hussein Ismaili, as saying that the number of deaths due to drinking neat alcohol had reached a disturbing figure, adding that…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The two weeks nationwide lockdown directed by President Muhammadu Buhari due to raging COVID-19 may be extended. This follows daily increase in the number of confirmed cases and death toll of the outbreak. Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chairman of the Presidential Taskforce (PTF) on COVID-19, Mr. Boss Mustapha…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS) – A Senegal judge has granted Chad’s former dictator Hissene Habre two months’ leave from prison, where he is serving life for crimes against humanity, as the jail is being used to hold new detainees in coronavirus quarantine. Habre, who ruled Chad from 1982 to 1990, was convicted of war crimes…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-WhatsApp on Tuesday placed new limits on message forwarding as part of an effort to curb the spread of misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic. The new policy limits users to forwarding certain messages to one “chat” at a time, aiming to limit the rapid propagation of content which is provocative but likely to…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has recorded 16 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of COVID-19 infections in the country to 254. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed the updated figure which rose from 238 to 254 with death in a tweet on Tuesday evening. Ten of the new cases were discovered…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Buhari has ordered the Nigeria Customs Service NCS to release with immediate effect bags of rice seized from smugglers for distribution to the masses. The move is not unconnected with the apparent hardship caused by the total lockdown of major cities and businesses, necessitated by the coronavirus outbreak in the country….