LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabia’s finance minister on Monday said the kingdom will triple its Value Added Tax and halt monthly handout payments to citizens in new austerity measures amid record low oil prices and a coronavirus-led economic slump. The measures, which could stir public resentment with the cost of living rising, come as the…
LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A worker at a fish-processing factory in Ghana’s Atlantic seafront city of Tema infected 533 other workers at the facility with the coronavirus, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo said in a broadcast late on Sunday. Health authorities reported the outbreak late on Friday, but did not provide details. “All 533 persons were infected…
LAGOS MA 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Churches may not be back to normal by the end of the year, a leading bishop has warned. Bishop Sarah Mullally DBE, who is currently the most senior female bishop in the Church of England, as well as being a former Chief Nursing Officer, said that there would have to be significant…
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South African Fredie Blom celebrated his 116th birthday on Friday unfazed by the coronavirus crisis, over 100 years since the Spanish flu pandemic killed his sister. “I have lived this long because of God’s grace,” said Blom, possibly one of the oldest men in the world. Lighting a cigarette, he recalled the…
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS) – More than 500 workers at an industrial facility in Ghana have tested positive for the coronavirus, the country’s health service said on Friday, as total cases jumped by nearly 30% in a single day. The health service did not name the facility, where it said in a statement that 533…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A personal valet to President Trump has tested positive for the coronavirus — the first known confirmed case in the West Wing, the White House said Thursday. “We were recently notified by the White House Medical Unit that a member of the United States Military, who works on the White House campus,…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Trump on Wednesday described the coronavirus pandemic as the worst attack the US has ever endured, calling it worse than Pearl Harbor or 9/11. “We went through the worst attack we’ve ever had in our country,” the president said of the virus which has killed more than 71,000 people in the…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Israel is reportedly threatening to remove GOD TV channel just one week after its launch, claiming it is proselytizing. The Christian network that broadcasts in at least 200 countries, responded in a statement saying, “if we were doing something sneaky, we would not have announced it to the world.” GOD TV began airing the 24/7 Hebrew-language “Shelanu TV”…