LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Government on Thursday disclosed that it has spent at least N800 million in conducting 16,000 COVID-19 tests in the state. The state’s Commissioner for Health, Professor. Akin Abayomi stated this, while briefing newsmen on COVID-19 weekly situation report, held in Press Centre, Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja. Abayomi, while responding to…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Muazu Magaji, former Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure in Kano State, has tested positive for COVID-19. Governor of the state, Abdullahi Ganduje, had on April 18 sacked Magaji as a result of his unguarded utterances over the demise of Abba Kyari, the late Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari. The commissioner,…
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The Lagos State Government has said about 3,000 samples are yet to be tested for COVID-19 in the state. In a statement on Sunday, the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, noted that the development was due to a lack of reagent for molecular testing. According to him, the Lagos State Government…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has mandated the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control to conduct 4,000 tests per day. NCDC Director-General, Chikwe Ihekweazu, who disclosed this yesterday at the 11th joint national briefing of the Presidential Taskforce Force on COVID-19, said Buhari had mandated the NCDC to increase testing in Lagos to 2,000; FCT,…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A group, Civil Society Coalition Against COVID-19 (CISCAC) has called on the 35 senators who recently attended a three-day international training programme in London to go for Coronavirus test. The coalition in a statement addressed by its Convener, Dr Nwambu Gabriel, in Abuja on Tuesday, demanded that the result of the test…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus. The Prime Minister said he has developed mild symptoms and is self isolating in Downing Street. He is continuing to run the government’s handling of the outbreak, he said. In a video released on his Twitter account, Johnson said: “I have developed mild symptoms…
LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, has tested positive to coronavirus (COVID-19). The governor’s Senior Special Assistant on Media, Mukhtar Gidado, announced this in a statement on Tuesday. This comes a day after the governor took the test after he had contact with the son of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar,…
LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has tested negative for the coronavirus but his Chief of Staff, Mr. Abba Kyari, has contracted the virus according results of tests carried out by Nigeria’s Centre for Disease Control, NCDC. A report by THISDAY citing presidency sources said the test on the President was done after Mr. Kyari…