LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has tested positive for coronavirus. The Lagos Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, made this known in a press statement on Monday. The statement was titled ‘Press release on the positive COVID-19 Status of Lagos Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi’. The…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kwara State deputy governor, Kayode Alabi, and his wife, Abieyuwa, have joined the list of dignitaries who contracted Covid-19. A statement by Rafiu Ajakaye, the spokesperson of the state’s Technical Committee on COVID-19 says the duo underwent COVID-19 test after they showed minor symptoms of the virus. Ajakaye however, said the couple…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo will self-isolate for 14 days on the advice of doctors after a person in his close circle tested positive for coronavirus, the government said in a statement late on Saturday. “He has, as at today, tested negative, but has elected to take this measure out of the abundance…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mr. Dave Umahi, the Governor of Ebonyi State says he has tested positive for the deadly COVID-19. Umahi in a statement Saturday morning said some close aides also tested positive for the virus after their samples were tested. He added that they are asymptomatic and have gone into isolation as prescribed by…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Comptroller Mohammed Abba-Kura, the controller of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Apapa command on Thursday, July 2, revealed that ten officers contracted coronavirus that is ravaging the country. In a report by Nigerian Tribune, Abba-Kura noted that all the customs officers who tested positive were treated at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Mr Wole Oyebamiji, the Secretary to Osun Government (SSG) has tested positive to COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the state to 127. Dr Rafiu Isamotu, the State Commissioner for Health Commissioner, who disclosed this in a statement in Osogbo on Tuesday, said 10 other new cases were also recorded….
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A personal valet to President Trump has tested positive for the coronavirus — the first known confirmed case in the West Wing, the White House said Thursday. “We were recently notified by the White House Medical Unit that a member of the United States Military, who works on the White House campus,…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano State Chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), on Tuesday, said that 34 doctors have tested positive to the novel coronavirus in the state. The NMA Chairman, Sanusi Bala, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano that one of the confirmed cases has died. Mr Bala explained that…