LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Once considered among the top midfielders in world soccer, Paul Pogba’s career risks a premature ending after the Juventus player and France international tested positive for testosterone. Italy’s anti-doping agency announced the failed drug test on Monday. The exam was carried out after Juventus’ game at Udinese on Aug. 20. Pogba did…
Former President Barack Obama has tested for positive for COVID-19, he announced on Twitter on Sunday. Former First Lady Michelle Obama has tested negative so far, Obama said. “I just tested positive for COVID. I’ve had a scratchy throat for a couple days, but am feeling fine otherwise,” the former president tweeted. “Michelle and I…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Muhammad, has reportedly tested positive for COVID-19. The online legal newspaper, Nigeria lawyer, reported that the CJN’s health status was made known at the national headquarters of the Muslim Lawyers’ Association of Nigeria (MULAN) on Tuesday by a justice of the Supreme Court, Ibrahim Saulawa,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monday said 138 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) had so far tested positive to COVID-19. Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director General, NCDC, said this at the national briefing on COVID-19 on Monday in Abuja. Mr Ihekweazu said none of those who tested positive…
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-World-record sprinter and eight-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt has tested positive for the coronavirus and is self-isolating at his home in Jamaica after last week celebrating his 34th birthday with a big bash mask-free. Jamaica’s health ministry confirmed late on Monday that Bolt, who holds world records in the 100m and…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has directed civil servants to undergo COVID-19 tests as part of efforts to flatten the curve of the pandemic in the country. In a circular signed by Permanent Secretary, Service Welfare Officer, Evelyn Ngige, said provision has been made at THISDAY Dome, one of the isolation centres for COVID-19…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Ekiti State governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has tested positive for Coronavirus (COVID-19). The governor, who announced this via his verified twitter handle said he has gone into isolation. He tweeted; “I took my third Covid-19 test yesterday and it came back positive. I’m generally ok and I’m already self-isolating at home and…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said on Sunday he had tested positive for COVID-19, and became the first member of President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet to contract the new coronavirus. Onyeama, 64, said on Twitter he had taken a COVID-19 test because of a throat irritation. “Did my fourth Covid-19 test yesterday at…