By Mcanthony Onuoha LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the exemption of the Nation”s Seaports from the lockdown order by President Muhammadu Buhari, to curb the spread of Covid-19 which has been ravaging countries of the world, a Maritime advocacy group, Maritime Integrity Initiative (MII) has asked for total shutdown of seaports saying that it was of…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday, March 29, imposed a total lockdown of Lagos and Ogun states, and the order also extended to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). In his address to the nation, the President stated that based on the advice of the Federal Ministry of Health and the NCDC, it became…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-When the coronavirus swept into Scandinavian countries, Norway and Denmark scrambled to place extensive restrictions on their borders to stem the outbreak. Sweden, their neighbor, took a decidedly different path. While Denmark and Norway closed their borders, restaurants and ski slopes and told all students to stay home this month, Sweden shut…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-More than 20 million Nigerians on Monday went into lockdown in sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest city Lagos and the capital Abuja, as the continent struggles to curb the spread of coronavirus. President Muhammadu Buhari ordered a two-week “cessation of all movements” in key cities to ward off an explosion of cases in Africa’s…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The First Lady of Kaduna State, Hadiza Isma El-Rufai, has solicited prayers from Nigerians for her husband, Governor Nasir El-Rufai, who announced on Saturday that he had tested positive for Coronavirus (COVID-19). Hadiza solicited the prayers moments after her husband posted a video on Twitter to announce his status. She said in…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGRS)-The Presidency has dismissed reports that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved N30,000 relief package to be given to every Nigerian with a verified Bank Verification Number (BVN) to cushion hardships occasioned by Coronavirus. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, was…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-For the past two days, New Yorkers have been dying at a rate of one every 17 minutes, according to the latest grim citywide statistics. On both Thursday and Friday, another 84 people died in the city from the coronavirus, as the number of positive cases and of those who are critically…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Italian Association of Doctors have confirmed the death of 51 doctors who all died after testing positive for coronavirus. The doctors succumbed to the disease as of Friday, according to CNN, citing the Italian Association of Doctors. The death toll comes after Filippo Anelli, the president of the association, on Thursday…