LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has mandated the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control to conduct 4,000 tests per day. NCDC Director-General, Chikwe Ihekweazu, who disclosed this yesterday at the 11th joint national briefing of the Presidential Taskforce Force on COVID-19, said Buhari had mandated the NCDC to increase testing in Lagos to 2,000; FCT, […]
Apr 16 2020 | Posted in
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LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has abruptly switched its guidance for use of a drug touted by President Donald Trump as a possible treatment for COVID-19, dropping its reference to anecdotal dosages to say simply that there are no approved drugs for dealing with the disease. The CDC’s online advice for […]
Apr 9 2020 | Posted in
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LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-In exercise of the powers conferred on him by Sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Quarantine Act (CAP Q2 LFN 2004) and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday signed the COVID-19 Regulations, 2020, which declared COVID-19 a dangerous infectious disease. This was made known […]
Mar 31 2020 | Posted in
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LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Emergency Management Agency says 15 corpses, including a family of four, have been recovered from the scene of Sunday’s explosion which occurred at Abule Ado, Trade Fair axis of Lagos State. No fewer than 60 students of Bethlehem Girls College located within the area, who sustained various degrees of injury […]
Mar 16 2020 | Posted in
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By Jerome-Mario Utomi LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-From the approach, the Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ), a Pan African non-governmental, non-religious, non-political and not-profit civil society organization, utilizes internationally and locally identified strategies, partners with relevant stakeholders within and outside Nigeria, to promote activities geared towards peace building, advocacy for human rights, good governance and gender mainstreaming, sustainable […]
Feb 14 2020 | Posted in
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LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Civil society groups are currently protesting at the embassies of the United States and United Kingdom respectively in Abuja, demanding a visa ban on all seven members of the Supreme Court panel that delivered judgment in the Imo State governorship election case that produced Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress as […]
Jan 23 2020 | Posted in
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LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A container-laden truck has crushed two persons to death after it tumbled on motion. The crash occurred at the Akankan village, along Olodo on the Abeokuta-Ibadan Road in the Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State. The Public Relations Officer, Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the accident […]
Jan 14 2020 | Posted in
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LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja on Friday to participate in the 5th Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) Summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. He noted that apart from the Nigerian leader, the one-day […]
Nov 28 2019 | Posted in
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LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Energy giant, the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) has outlined re-orientating the thinking of undergraduates in Nigerian universities as one of the critical actions to challenge them on the use of emerging technologies to enable innovation and allow Nigeria to actualize the National Association of Petroleum Explorationists’ (NAPE) 37th […]
Nov 20 2019 | Posted in
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LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Human right activist and Former APC Presidential Aspirant in 2019 general election, Barr Christmas Akpodiete while delivering a paper at conference of good governance recently in Washington DC USA, exalted the achievements of the All progressive congress (APC) and praised President Buhari anti corruption crusade. He said if not that Muhammadu Buhari […]
Nov 16 2019 | Posted in
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