LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Wike of Rivers State has sacked the Permanent Secretary, Sunny Okere, for allegedly flouting guidelines put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease in the state. This was contained in a statement signed on Wednesday by the state’s Commissioner for Information and Communication, Paulinus Nsirim. According to the…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Education, Mr Adamu Adamu has just announced that no Unity Schools will participate in the scheduled WAEC exams. Mr Adamu stated this after the Federal Executive Council on Wednesday. He said that none of the schools under his ministry will resume until schools are considered safe. The Minister urged…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian professor, Cyril Otoikhian, has challenged the Nigerian government and other scientists working on COVID-19 to prove the existence of the virus in the country. The professor of genetics at the Novena University, Delta State, in a Monday morning programme on Channels TV, shocked his interviewers when he argued that the…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Weeks after President Trump demanded that America’s shuttered houses of worship be allowed to reopen, new outbreaks of the coronavirus are surging through churches across the country where services have resumed. The virus has infiltrated Sunday sermons, meetings of ministers and Christian youth camps in Colorado and Missouri. It has struck churches…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives on Tuesday slid into panic mode following rumours that over 50 legislators may have tested positive to dreaded coronavirus, and are still attending plenary sessions and committee meetings. As a result, the House has adjourned plenary till next week, as oplosed to its adopted covid-19 sitting guideline of…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-International students who are pursuing degrees in the United States will have to leave the country or risk deportation if their universities switch to online-only courses, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Monday. The move may affect thousands of foreign students who come to the United States to attend universities or participate in…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, who has repeatedly downplayed the severity of the coronavirus outbreak even as it has ravaged his nation, said Tuesday that he has COVID-19. Confirming his diagnosis to journalists in Brasilia on Tuesday, Bolsonaro said that he was suffering muscle aches, fatigue and a fever but otherwise felt “normal.”…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo will self-isolate for 14 days on the advice of doctors after a person in his close circle tested positive for coronavirus, the government said in a statement late on Saturday. “He has, as at today, tested negative, but has elected to take this measure out of the abundance…