LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The world’s faltering effort to contain the coronavirus outbreak hammered stocks and crude oil on Sunday, as new cases surfacing across the U.S. amplified fears of a global downturn. Brent crude (BZ=F) prices collapsed, falling by as much as 31% on Sunday evening in what was the largest single-day drop since the…
LAGOS MARCH 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A hotel used for medical observation of people who had contact with coronavirus patients collapsed in southeastern China on Saturday, trapping some 70 people, state media reported. There were no immediate reports of deaths. At least 23 people were rescued from the wreckage of the Xinjia Express Hotel in Quanzhou, a city…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The World Health Organisation (WHO) has advised people to use contactless technology instead of cash as banknotes may be spreading coronavirus. The infectious COVID-19 virus could be carried on the surface of banknotes for several days, the WHO warned on Monday night. To stop the spread of the disease, people should use…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Prophet T.B. Joshua of the Synagogue Church of all Nations (SCOAN) has revealed when the deadly Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) would stop taking its toll on nations of the world. Joshua had on March 1, 2020, prophesied that there would be showers of rain across the country that would “wipe away the fear…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid a global health crisis, Italian soccer teams and Serie A’s governing body are squabbling with each other about when to play games with Inter Milan chief executive Giuseppe Marotta saying the season even runs the risk of being unable to finish. Five games scheduled in the top tier of the Italian…
LAGOS MARCH 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Tasnim news agency on Monday reported that Seyed Mohammad Mir-Mohammadi, a member of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council, died of COVID-19. His death comes as other top Iranian officials have contracted the virus. The country has the highest death toll in the world, after China. Seyed Mohammad Mir-Mohammadi was…
LAGOS MARCH 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has dismissed rumours circulating in some social media outfits that it had postponed the 2020 Batch “A” orientation programme, reportedly over Coronavirus scare. Mrs. Adenike Adeyemi, Director, Press and Public Relations of the scheme, in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, dismissed the claims as “misleading”….
LAGOS MARCH 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The search for prevention against coronavirus and the fear of contracting it has resulted in good business for herb sellers in Kaduna, as the prices of spices have gone up. The search for prevention against coronavirus and the fear of contracting it has resulted in good business for herb sellers in Kaduna,…