COVID-19 | NEWS RANGERS

COP26 – Commonwealth Chief Calls For “Highest Possible Ambition” At COP26 Climate Summit

LAGOS OCTOBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland has called for all countries to deliver an ambitious and transformative outcome at the imminent UN Climate Change Conference COP26, while appealing for increased support for the smallest and most vulnerable nations. The Secretary-General will lead a delegation to the summit, to advocate for the interests of […]

Oct 29 2021 | Posted in International,National | Read More »

Africa’s Biggest Film Festival, FESPACO Kicks Off In Burkina Faso

LAGOS OCTOBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS) — Africa’s largest film festival kicks off Saturday in Burkina Faso amid both the COVID-19 pandemic and a growing jihadi insurgency in the West African nation that has killed thousands of people and displaced more than 1 million in recent years. Alex Moussa Sawadogo, head of the Pan-African Film and TV […]

Oct 19 2021 | Posted in Entertainment,National | Read More »

FG Outlines Measures For COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery, Reconstruction; Charges Media To Initiate Process

LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has outlined some of the measures being implemented for COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery and Reconstruction in the country, after taking steps to contain the spread of infection, minimize casualties and ensure that clinical services could cope with the projected fatalities. Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman, […]

Oct 8 2021 | Posted in National | Read More »

Nigeria Gets $400m World Bank Financing For COVID-19

LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS) – Nigeria got approval on Friday for $400 million in World Bank financing to procure and deploy COVID-19 vaccinations, the bank said in a statement. The World Bank board of directors signed off on the financing, provided via the International Development Association, which it said would enable Africa’s most populous nation […]

Oct 2 2021 | Posted in Health,National | Read More »

Covid-19: Buhari Begs Rich Nations For Debt Cancellation At UN

LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in New York appealed to rich nations and international financial institutions for outright debt cancellation for countries facing the most severe challenges in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic that had ravaged economies globally. In his speech at the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly, Buhari […]

Sep 25 2021 | Posted in National | Read More »

Former Ivory Coast Prime Minister Dies Of Covid-19 In Paris Hospital

LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Ivory Coast Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny died in a Paris hospital on Friday after contracting Covid-19, close aides said. Banny, 78, who was in office from 2005-2007, was being treated at the American Hospital in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine after contracting the disease in Ivory Coast. “He changed my […]

Sep 11 2021 | Posted in International,National | Read More »

Iheanacho Scores Brace As Nigeria Make Winning Start In World Cup Qualifying

LAGOS SEPTEMBE 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Leicester City forward Kelechi Iheanacho scored twice as Nigeria beat Liberia 2-0 in Lagos on Friday to go top of an African World Cup qualifying group. He struck after 21 and 45 minutes for a nation that has competed at six of the last seven World Cup tournaments, without ever getting past […]

Sep 4 2021 | Posted in National,Sports | Read More »

Ex-Chad President Habre, Convicted Of War Crimes, Dies Of COVID-19

LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS) – Hissene Habre, the former strongman president of Chad and security ally of the West during the Cold War who was later jailed for war crimes, died on Tuesday in Senegal at the age of 79, Senegal’s justice minister said. Habre contracted COVID-19 at a clinic in the capital Dakar where […]

Aug 25 2021 | Posted in International,National | Read More »

Covid-19: Rev. Jesse Jackson, Wife Jacqueline Hospitalized, Under Observation

LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rev. Jesse Jackson, and his wife, Jacqueline, remained under doctors’ observation Sunday at a Chicago hospital and were “responding positively to treatments” for COVID-19, their son told The Associated Press. The couple, married for nearly six decades, were admitted to Northwestern Memorial Hospital a day earlier. Physicians were “carefully monitoring their […]

Aug 23 2021 | Posted in Health,International,National | Read More »

Covid-19 Scare: Buhari, Delegation To Go On Isolation After Nigeria UK Embassy Staff Test Positive

LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari and members of his delegation to the United Kingdom are to go on isolation after spending about two weeks in London. This is coming after Ambassador Sarafa Tunji Isola, the UK High Commissioner who was seen in close contact with the President on his arrival at the Airport in […]

Aug 16 2021 | Posted in National | Read More »