LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As COVID-19 continues to ravage the developed world, the effects are farther reaching in areas of Africa. Amina Abdulla, Concern Worldwide’s Country Director in Kenya, has raised the alarm that women are currently feeling extensive personal devastation in the wake of COVID-19. According to her, “Due to greater economic stress and social isolation…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian Universities’ Scientists, under the aegis of COVID-19 Research Group on Friday announced the discovery of a vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19. Addressing a news conference on Friday at Adeleke University, Ede, in Osun, Dr Oladipo Kolawole; leader of the team, said the COVID-19 vaccine was being developed locally in Africa…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Black Americans of African descent should return to the continent because they are not wanted in the United States, a government minister in Ghana has said. Barbara Oteng Gyasi, the country’s tourism minister, urged black Americans to return “home” during an emotional ceremony in the Ghanaian capital Accra to mark the death…
LAGOS MAY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)- – Cases of community transmission of the new coronavirus are growing in Africa, particularly in Ethiopia, and a new strategy for testing is needed to prevent this, the head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. Community transmission refers to cases where patients had no travel…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Stickypics, a picture frame that creates your wall of beautiful memories was established to solve a major but overlooked problem The idea of Stickypics was born as a result of a simple yet difficult problem everyone had to face but overlooked. The complexity and stress of hanging pictures has always been a…
By Malcolm Omirhobo LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As an African, a Pan Africanist for that matter , celebrating Africa’s liberation day with my fellow African brothers and sisters both here at home in Africa and in Diaspora together with our well wishers all over the World, sitting in my small corner and in my quite and…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Africa has so far been spared the worst impact of the coronavirus, but the World Health Organization is worried the continent could face a “silent epidemic” if its leaders do not prioritize testing for it, a WHO envoy said on Monday. “My first point for Africa, my first concern, is that a…
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A new study by the World Health Organization (WHO) has found that if containment measures in African countries fail, between 83,000 and 190,000 people across the continent could die in the first 12 months of the coronavirus pandemic. The study was based on 47 African countries with a total population of 1…