LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)- Nigeria, on Friday, reported a staggering number of COVID-19 cases – 238 single day infections along with 68 deaths so far, 351 discharged and a total record of 2170 cases nationwide. The country’s Centre for Disease Control, Friday night, said that the new cases were recorded in 22 states and the…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, has said that bed spaces for patients of Coronavirus Disease are no longer readily available in Lagos State. Ihekweazu said this on Thursday when he spoke at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja….
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Kano, Nigeria’s second most populous state, Thursday returned a daily record of 80 confirmed cases of the coronavirus to overtake Lagos for the first time as the state with the highest daily infections. Also, it was yet another record day for Nigeria with a daily high of 204 confirmed cases and 7…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has directed the reopening of markets on selected days in the state. He spoke during a televised press conference on Wednesday. The Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Gboyega Akosile, in a series of tweets, said the governor also ordered that schools should remain closed. He tweeted, “Eateries…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The Federal Government says banks will open for commercial operations in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun States beginning Monday, May 4. The National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Dr Sani Aliyu, disclosed this in an ongoing update in Abuja monitored by The PUNCH. Aliyu said banks would be allowed…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS) -The Arewa Council of Chiefs in Lagos has slammed the state’s Commissioner of Waterfront, Architect Ahmed Kabiru Abdullahi, for allegedly claiming that the council had been giving ‘several tonnes’ of rice. The council, which said it has not received even a grain of rice from the Lagos State government, warned people…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 15 persons (11 females and four males) infected with COVID-19 in Lagos have recovered and discharged. The patients were treated at the isolation centers. So far, 138 persons have recovered in Lagos, the epicenter of the pandemic in Nigeria. “The 15 discharged patients include one Indian national. 11 were discharged…
LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Residents of Willoughby Street, Okobaba, a thickly populated slum community located in the Ebute-Metta (East) axis of Lagos State were relieved with the sight of a siren-blaring ambulance from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) which was in their community to fetch three suspected coronavirus patients for treatment. What was…