In an interview, Austin Avuru, CEO, Seplat Petroleum Development Company, speaks on the impact of Covid-19 and falling oil prices on Nigeria’s economy. How is Nigeria’s oil and gas industry faring in the face of the current pandemic? AUSTIN AVURU : The combination of the current pandemic and the rapid decline in demand for crude oil…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has declared the country “coronavirus-free” thanks to prayers by citizens. “The corona disease has been eliminated thanks to God,” Mr Magufuli told worshippers in a church in the capital, Dodoma. The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern over the government’s strategy on Covid-19. The government has stopped…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Sunday, announced that the country has recorded 260 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 12,486. The NCDC disclosed this on its verified Twitter handle and website on Sunday night. The centre also said that the number…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia has contracted the deadly coronavirus, the State’s Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi Kalu, said in a statement. The Governor’s sample, which was taken twice, returned negative Tuesday and then a second sample test Thursday confirmed he had contracted the disease. The statement said: “Recall that on…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A COVID-19 patient who refused to receive treatment after testing positive for the disease has been arrested at “Oja Oba” market in Akure, capital of Ondo state. According to Wahab Adegbenro, commissioner for health, the patient, a female, tested positive for the virus in Imo state but escaped to Ondo. Adegbenro said after her…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Madagascar’s education minister has been fired over plans to order more than $2m (£1.6m) worth of sweets for schoolchildren. Rijasoa Andriamanana said pupils would be given three lollipops each to mask the “bitter” aftertaste of an untested herbal remedy for coronavirus. The plan was called off after objections from Madagascar’s president. President…
LAGOS JUNE 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A full autopsy of George Floyd, the handcuffed black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police, was released Wednesday and provides several clinical details, including that Floyd had previously tested positive for COVID-19. The 20-page report released by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office came with the family’s permission and…
No fewer than 315 patients have died of coronavirus-related complications in Nigeria, The PUNCH reports. This is as the country recorded 348 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, which made this known, noted that a total of 11,166 cases of COVID-19 has been recorded in the country. NCDC said,…