LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Weeks after President Trump demanded that America’s shuttered houses of worship be allowed to reopen, new outbreaks of the coronavirus are surging through churches across the country where services have resumed. The virus has infiltrated Sunday sermons, meetings of ministers and Christian youth camps in Colorado and Missouri. It has struck churches…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has said its orientation camps will reopen when it is very safe, in view of the formidable danger posed by COVID-19 pandemic. Director of Press and Public Relations of the scheme, Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, made this known in a statement yesterday in Abuja. ”The attention of…
LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 says it is not safe to reopen schools, television viewing centres and other areas of public interest. PTF Chairman and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja, the nation’s capital. According to him, some governors were contemplating…
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 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has announced that all markets in states where a lockdown was imposed (Lagos, FCT and Ogun) will be allowed to open between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm daily. The National Co-ordinator of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Aliyu Sani, said this on Wednesday during a briefing by members…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A passenger had to be held down by flight crew and members of the public after trying to open an emergency exit door mid-flight. The flight from Chicago to Dallas made an emergency landing in St. Louis on Tuesday night and the man was arrested by police. Passengers on board the American Airlines…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS-Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, plans to take office space in New York to help diversify his investments and avoid the risk of currency fluctuations on his home continent. The owner of the biggest cement company in sub-Saharan Africa will use the base and an existing one in London to become more…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A campaign office, purportedly for the 2023 presidential elections ambition of a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has opened in Osun state. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the campaign office had pictures of Tinubu as well as his name written all over the place. It…