LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump Jr., President Donald Trump’s eldest son, has tested positive for the coronavirus, a spokesman told CNN on Friday. He is one of the frontliners of the no mask campaigners Don tested positive at the start of the week and has been quarantining out at his cabin since the result,” the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Task Force, PTF, on COVID-19 has urged Nigerians in diaspora shelve plans of coming home for the Christmas festivities. The National Coordinator of the task force, Dr Sani Aliyu, disclosed this during the weekly media briefing of the task force. According to Aliyu, this will help prevent the safety measures…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As part of efforts to mitigate the effect of COVID-19, the Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, says the Federal Government, is in the process of acquiring a 750 million dollar loan, from the world bank to help states. This loan according to her is to stimulate the local…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With COVID-19 cases increasing in 46 states, 10 of which broke single-day records for new cases on Thursday, America has officially entered what experts refer to as the “exponential” phase of spread — a rapid multiplying of cases that can’t be contained through traditional measures. On Thursday alone, the U.S. saw 160,000…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has set a third straight daily record for new Covid-19 infections, notching more than 127,000 cases, John Hopkins University reported Friday. And the death toll as of 8:30 pm (0130 GMT) over the past 24 hours was 1,149, the Baltimore-based university said. The outbreak has been surging for weeks…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State Government has confirmed COVID-19 cases in a secondary boarding school on the mainland. According to a report by Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, on Friday night, a member of the school’s staff tested positive for COVID-19 on November 2. “Contact tracing has revealed that a student and four contacts…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-England’s airports have seen waves of holidaymakers rush to leave the country before the latest lockdown rules come into effect on Thursday. The new rules, which will see both international travel and travel inside the UK banned for a month, have sparked a stampede of people rushing to the departure gates before…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered the full reopening of markets in the state. This was made known on Tuesday by the Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs Wale Ahmed. According to a statement by the governor’s senior special assistant on new media Gawat Jubril, both food markets and non-food…