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CONSULTANT  obstetricians and gynaecologists have warned that Lagos State will experience an explosion of newborn babies in the next seven to eight months as a result of the recent lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

NIGERIA'S main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has given Governor Godwin Obaseki several conditions he has to meet before being accepted as its candidate in the forthcoming gubernatorial elections.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) I am sure many of you have read Professor Osinbajo’s economic revival plans. As ever, Prof was very meticulous in looking at areas where we can get significant growth including boosting farm output, tapping into the potential of solar energy and he even suggested introducing a public works programme to offer employment to our teaming army of unemployed youths

Ayo Akinfe

(1) I am sure many of you have read Professor Osinbajo’s economic revival plans. As ever, Prof was very meticulous in looking at areas where we can get significant growth including boosting farm output, tapping into the potential of solar energy and he even suggested introducing a public works programme to offer employment to our teaming army of unemployed youths

INSECURITY is mounting at the presidential villa amid rumours that gunshots were fired there yesterday as security aides of the first lady Hadjia Aisha Buhari clashed with one of her husband's special assistants Sabiu Yusuf over coronavirus fears.

GOVERNOR Godwin Obaseki is all set to be declared as the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming Edo State elections after he picked up a membership card and got the backing of the party's presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) I have been studying the Finnish railway industry of late and am very impressed with the way they have used it as a basis for industrialisation. If only Nigeria showed 10% of their productivity, we would have a high-speed pan-African railway network

VICE president Professor Yemi Osinbajo has warned that nearly 40m Nigerians might lose their jobs this year as a result of the economic fallout from the shutdown introduced in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

NIGERIAN-born playmaker Dele Alli has been suspended for one match by the English Football Association over a post he wrote on social media about coronavirus in which he appeared to be mocking an Asian man.