LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-After months of being shut down, the Lagos State Government has approved the full reopening of worship centres in the state. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, announced this during a briefing in the state on Saturday. According to him, churches are now allowed to observe their mid-week services, while the mosques are also allowed…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Government on Saturday announced the reopening of worship centre on Friday, Aug. 7 for Muslims and Sunday, Aug. 9 for Christians. Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, announced this during the 17th Update on the Management of Coronavirus in the state at Lagos House, Marina. Sanwo-Olu said that churches whose…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Weeks after President Trump demanded that America’s shuttered houses of worship be allowed to reopen, new outbreaks of the coronavirus are surging through churches across the country where services have resumed. The virus has infiltrated Sunday sermons, meetings of ministers and Christian youth camps in Colorado and Missouri. It has struck churches…
LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Government on Tuesday announced the suspension of the earlier scheduled opening of churches and mosques in the state. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Lagos State governor, made the announcement while addressing journalists at the State House, Marina. The opening, which was earlier slated to commence on June 19 for mosques and…
LAGOS JUNE 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has urged churches in Nigeria to remember Nigeria in their prayers, especially now that the country, like all other countries of the world, is being ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic. Obi spoke on Tuesday through the Chairman…
LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Trump announced Friday that all houses of worship would be considered “essential services” and urged governors to “do the right thing” and reopen them immediately — adding that he would “override” them if they didn’t. “Today, I am identifying houses of worship, churches, synagogues, and mosques, as essential places that provide…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In one fell swoop, four states in the North – Borno, Gombe, Adamawa and Zamfara – on Thursday reopened Mosques and Churches. It was a major easing of the lockdown imposed to curb Coronavirus spread. The Federal Government frowned at the situation having not been consulted as expected, in line with the…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control has advised that mass gatherings of any type should be discouraged as the fear of a possible outbreak looms. In an update released by the NCDC on Monday afternoon, the National Epidemic monitoring team is on top of situation in the country as the global transmission…