LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has tested positive for the coronavirus after he was exposed to a confirmed case. “A PCR test performed yesterday the 11th of December has confirmed that he has indeed been infected with the virus,” Lagos State commissioner for information Gbenga Omotoso said. The commissioner said the governor…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Australia has become the first country to scrap a coronavirus vaccine project after a shot developed as part of the $750 million plan led trial participants to falsely test positive for HIV. The University of Queensland and the Australian biotech firm CSL had been conducting clinical trials on a prototype vaccine with…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Katsina State Police Command on Saturday said over 200 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, were rescued from gunmen who attacked the school on Friday night. The command, however, did not specify the number of students abducted by the bandits. A statement by the spokesman for the command, SP Gambo…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, says the naira will regain its strength among the league of currencies. He stated this on Saturday morning during the Church’s annual Holy Ghost Congress held at the RCCG International Headquarters along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The PUNCH reports that…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman, Onitsha Archdiocesan Hospital Board, Rev Fr Patrick Omuta, has narrated how the former Governor of Anambra State and Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has, over the years, uplifted the Anambra Health Sector with many signature projects. Fr Omuta,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some women from Onireke Market, Ojo, Lagos State on Friday thronged Onireke Police Station with a plan to mob two women nabbed by the police for allegedly selling and buying a three-day-old baby. The police prevented the women from entering the station, but remained at the gate in the blazing sun and…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iranian dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam, who was convicted of fomenting violence during anti-government protests in 2017, was executed on Saturday, Iran’s state television reported. Iran said on Tuesday its Supreme Court had upheld the death sentence of Zam, who was captured in 2019 after years of living in exile in France. His…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Liberian warlord has been ordered to stand trial in France for war crimes committed during the west African country’s bloody 1989-2003 conflict, judicial sources told AFP on Thursday. Kunti Kamara is accused of torture and complicity in acts of torture during the first of Liberia’s back-to-back civil wars, which together…
