LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-New signing Odion Ighalo will not travel to Manchester United’s training camp in Spain as it is not guaranteed he would clear UK immigration on his return should border restrictions tighten on travellers who have been in China within past 14 days following the coronavirus outbreak. Ighalo, who moved to Old Trafford…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian government has budgeted N620 million to manage the coronavirus epidemic. This is according to the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire. Tribune reports that the ministry of health budgeted the fund to monitor, detect and prevent the country from the dreaded coronavirus spreading across the world from China. While interfacing with…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The international oil benchmark, Brent crude, plummeted to its lowest level in more than a year on Monday, trading below the Federal Government’s benchmark for the 2020 budget, as the coronavirus outbreak hit fuel demand in China. The 2020 budget, which was signed by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), in…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Carrying permits demanding “fast passage,” truck drivers rushed a 560-ton shipment of disinfectant from eastern China to Wuhan, the locked-down city of 11 million people at the center of a vast effort to contain a new viral disease. Outside the metropolis in central China, the cargo was shifted to local trucks with…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The World Health Organization declared the outbreak sparked by a new virus in China that has been exported to more than a dozen countries as a global emergency Thursday after the number of cases spiked tenfold in a week. The U.N. health agency defines an international emergency as an “extraordinary event” that…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The first known coronavirus case in the US involving someone who had not traveled to China has surfaced in Illinois, health officials said Thursday. The patient, who was not identified, is the husband of the Chicago woman who became infected after making a trip to the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter…
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With reports reaching us, the Health authorities in Ivory Coast are investigating a suspected case of Wuhan coronavirus in a female student who arrived from China, officials have said. The said student, whom authorities have not named, is the first person to be tested for the virus on the continent, CNN reports….
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Immigration Service and Port Health Services have expressed fears over the outbreak of Coronavirus in China. The deadly disease, which broke out in the Asian nation sometime last month, has spread to eight countries including United States and Singapore, with over 800 people infected and 30 killed in the past…