LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal government said on Monday it is working towards getting more oxygen to attend to emergencies as cases of deaths occasioned by coronavirus keep increasing. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation and PTF Chairman, Boss Mustapha, stated this in Abuja during the briefing of the task force. The Presidential…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ivory Coast Vice President Daniel Kablan Duncan has resigned, the presidency said on Monday, further unsettling the political outlook days after the sudden death of Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, President Alassane Ouattara’s preferred successor. The death last week of Gon Coulibaly, hand-picked by Ouattara to run in October’s presidential election, has…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Orange Drug Group has dismissed media report of the death Billionaire Businessman and Founder, Orange Drugs, Chief Tony Ezenna. On Sunday, rumours went viral on social media that Ezenna had died from COVID-19 complications. However, in a statement obtained by signed by Ingram Osigwe, Media adviser for Orange group, the death…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man simply identified as Femi, stabbed his wife to death, and thereafter committed suicide in their home in Victory Park estate in Lagos state on Sunday, June 21. According to residents of the estate, the couple moved into the estate three weeks ago with their two young children. Not much…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A hiker has died in the Kubwa area of Abuja after falling from a mountain in the residential suburb of the Federal Capital Territory. The incident took place on Saturday morning at one of the mountains in the residential district located in Bwari Area Council. It was gathered that the yet-to-be identified…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria, on Tuesday, announced 31 deaths from COVID-19 as the caseload shot up to 17,148. The death toll was the highest number ever announced, since the reckoning began in late February. Twenty-five of the deaths occurred in Lagos, the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said. It said the figure covered the…
LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has sentenced three persons to death by hanging for killing a former Niger Delta militant leader, Soboma George and a groundnut seller, Joy John-Ejims. The court ruled that Dougbra Ogbe, Emmanuel Gladstone and Bere Matthew, were guilty of conspiracy and murder 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,…
