LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Cybercrime Unit of the Nigeria Police Force, INTERPOL, National Central Bureau, Abuja has arrested two Nigerian suspects for their complicity in a major multi-million Euro scam touching on procurement of COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the tune of 14.7 Euros perpetrated against a German Company. According to a statement issued…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-France’s education minister on Friday said 22 schools have had to shut on French territory due to the coronavirus since pupils returned to school this week, emphasising that over half of these were in the Indian Ocean island of La Reunion. Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer told Europe 1 radio that he was…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government on Thursday told state governments and school administrators to be prepared for the full reopening of schools. This is as a result of decline in COVID-19 infections across the nation. National Coordinator, Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19, Dr Sani Aliyu, at a briefing in Abuja said the full reopening of…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government says the nationwide curfew in place in the country to restrict movement amid the coronavirus pandemic is now from 12am to 4am. The National Coordinator of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19, Dr Sani Aliyu, made this known during a briefing at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja, on Thursday….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-PSG star Neymar has reportedly tested positive for coronavirus, with the Ligue 1 club confirming that three players have contracted the virus. The Ligue 1 champions and Champions League finalists did not name the players involved, but Angel Di Maria, 32, and Leandro Paredes, 26, are believed to be the other two…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Spokesman of the senate, Ajibola Basiru, has said no member of the Nigerian senate got N20 million as COVID-19 palliatives. Basiru stated this while reacting to a statement made by the executive director of projects at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Cairo Ojugboh. Ojougboh had stated that senators and members…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Months after losing his wife to cancer, Senator Ben Bruce loses brother in-law to COVID-19 Months after losing his wife to cancer, Senator Ben Murray Bruce, has lost his brother-in-law, Dr David Hargett, to the dreaded disease, COVID-19. Ben Bruce shared the sad news on his Twitter handle on Saturday, August 29….
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagosians, as residents of Lagos State, are popularly known, have expressed concerns over the subsisting regime of three weekly market-free days in the state, a development they say is worsening hunger pangs and having a detrimental effect on the fight against COVID-19. Equally important, some of the respondents; among whom are traders,…