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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…