LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Marseille president Pape Diouf has died at age 68 due to complications from Covid-19. Diouf had been hospitalised in his native Senegal and was placed under respiratory assistance on Saturday after his illness became serious. The Senegal native’s relatives had hoped to transport him to France to receive further medical attention but…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Prophet T.B. Joshua, claimed he was misunderstood about his prediction on when the raging coronavirus (COVID-19) would end. Reports had said he gave a timeline of 27 March. Now he has fine-tuned his prediction. He said what he meant was that the virus…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-More than 20 million Nigerians on Monday went into lockdown in sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest city Lagos and the capital Abuja, as the continent struggles to curb the spread of coronavirus. President Muhammadu Buhari ordered a two-week “cessation of all movements” in key cities to ward off an explosion of cases in Africa’s…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Due to the widespread of Coronavirus epidemic in Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari has consented to let go of some individuals from correctional centres to reduce congestion which may likely have an impact on the global epidemic in the country. It is understood that President Buhari had recently constituted a Presidential Committee for…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-All Progressives Congress leader, Bola Tinubu, has asked the Federal Government to print more naira notes in order to save the economy from collapse even as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to bite harder. Tinubu said this in a statement he wrote in commemoration of his 68th birthday. The former governor of Lagos State…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The First Lady of Kaduna State, Hadiza Isma El-Rufai, has solicited prayers from Nigerians for her husband, Governor Nasir El-Rufai, who announced on Saturday that he had tested positive for Coronavirus (COVID-19). Hadiza solicited the prayers moments after her husband posted a video on Twitter to announce his status. She said in…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGRS)-The Presidency has dismissed reports that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved N30,000 relief package to be given to every Nigerian with a verified Bank Verification Number (BVN) to cushion hardships occasioned by Coronavirus. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, was…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States Government has announced a 7 million dollars (about N2.6 billion) emergency health and humanitarian aid to Nigeria; amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This is part of a 274 million dollars (N103 billion) assistance package to no fewer than 63 countries affected by coronavirus; according to a statement by the…