LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian international, Anthony Nwakaeme, who plays for Trabzonspor in Turkey, scored the first goal in the Turkish League, which restarted Friday with his team’s game against Goztepe. The Turkish Super Lig was suspended like other leagues across the world. Nwakaeme, who gave his side a deserving lead in the 16th minutes of…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska said on Friday she had tested positive for the novel coronavirus amid a rise in infections. Zelenska, 42, added that her husband, President Volodymyr Zelensky, and their two children tested negative. “Today I’ve received a positive COVID-19 test result,” she said on Facebook. On Thursday, Ukrainian authorities…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Over three hundred people were said to have been buried in Gombe in the last six days. The Commissioner for Information and the spokesperson for the State Task Force on Covid-19, Alhassan Ibrahim, said on Thursday that the death might not be unconnected to coronavirus. He said, “For the past six days…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Within its first 100 days of introduction, Polaris Bank’s Agency Banking initiative, SurePadi, has serviced over half a million customers impacting directly an estimated two million households across the seven business regions of the Bank nationwide. Beyond the direct impact on customers and households in Nigeria, the sheer volume and value in…
LAGOS JUNE 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, has been moved to Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, for intensive care after testing positive for Coronavirus earlier this week. According to insider sources, the governor is being treated at his home in Abuja with a sizable number of medical personnel on the ground to ensure he gets…
LAGOS JUNE 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Youth Service Corps has embarked on measures that would enable safe and efficient conduct of its operations after lifting of COVID-19 restrictions on socio-economic activities in the country. The NYSC said the 2020 Batch ‘A’ Stream One Orientation Course was suspended one week into the exercise as a proactive measure…
LAGOS JUNE 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Brazil has pulled out of the race to host the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup just two weeks before the successful bid is announced. The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), the country’s national soccer body, said its government did not want to sign guarantees required to hold the event owing to Covid-19. Brazil…
LAGOS JUNE 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, who recently tested positive for Coronavirus (COVID-19), has been flown out of the state for further treatment, News Express learnt. Sources close to the Government House, Umuahia, said he was “flown to Abuja for treatment and was not in Abia State as at last week Saturday.”…