LAGOS APRIL 24TH (NEWSRANGERS) -Missouri became the first state to sue the Chinese government, citing “an appalling campaign of deceit” related to the coronavirus pandemic. The civil lawsuit was filed Tuesday in federal court by GOP state Attorney General Eric Schmitt, claiming Chinese officials are “responsible for the enormous death, suffering, and economic losses they inflicted on the world,…
LAGOS APRIL 24TH (NEWSRANGERS) There was a stampede at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi (NAUTH) over the weekend following the arrival of a man suspected to be a Coronavirus patient. News Express gathered that some doctors and non-medical staff on duty also fled when the patient was brought in to avoid contacting the contagious…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The ravaging Coronavirus has claimed the life of a Deputy Commissioner of Police attached to the Zone 5 headquarters of the Nigeria Police in Benin City. Informed sources confirmed that the Police Officer, a Lawyer from Cross River State, “suddenly fell ill on the 14th of April and was being managed by…
LAGOS APRIL 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-China is facing a backlash from major European powers after suspicions over its role in the coronavirus pandemic which has caused 1 lakh deaths in Europe. The Express UK reported that that a major German newspaper has put together a 130-billion-pound invoice that Beijing “owes” Berlin following the impact of the coronavirus…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abba Kyari, Kanuri from Borno, who died on 17 April 2020 was a Nigerian politician and former Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari. In 1980, according to different biographical information on him (aggregated by Wikipedia), he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Warwick, and also received…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mr Abba Kyari, has died more than two weeks after he tested positive for COVID-19. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, announced Mr Kyari’s death on Twitter. Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari, passes on….
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The coronavirus pandemic could kill 300,000 people in Africa this year, even with assertive government measures to limit social interactions, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Overcrowded slums with no access to water coupled with fragile health-care systems make the continent especially vulnerable to the disease, the Addis Ababa-based…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Preliminary results from government lab experiments show that the coronavirus does not survive long in high temperatures and high humidity, and is quickly destroyed by sunlight, providing evidence from controlled tests of what scientists believed — but had not yet proved — to be true. A briefing on the preliminary results, marked…