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PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has just appointed Nigeria's former foreign minister and ex-permanent representatives to the United Nations (UN) Professor Ibrahim Gambari as his new chief of staff to replace Mallam Abba Kyari who recently died after contracting coronavirus.

COCA-Cola and soft drinks bottler the Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) has joined the growing list of private companies distributing palliatives to the population in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

NIGERIA'S Catholic community has offered all of its 425 health facilities across the country to the government to be used as isolation centres as its contribution to the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) I am not sure the reality of what is coming has really hit the average Nigerian. My people appear to think that Covid-19 will soon be over and life will return to normal. Unfortunately, the government is not telling us that such thinking is utopian. Tough times lie ahead

FORMER vice presidential candidate Pastor Tunde Bakare has donated three buildings to the Lagos and Ogun state governments for use as isolation centres as part of his contribution towards the coronavirus relief effort.

SAUDI Arabia has unveiled a radical economic revival plan involving the tripling of value added tax (VAT) and the suspension of monthly handouts to enable it recoup the heavy losses it as suffered as a result of oil prices collapsing and no religious pilgrimages.

CHERUBIM and Seraphim Church prophetess Evelyn Owoleke has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command after one of her parishioners bled to death after giving birth during a service in defiance of a government lockdown order.

JIGAWA State's Senator Ibrahim Hassan Hadejia has denied that the state is now a major coronavirus epicentre despite reports of over 100 deaths over the last week claiming that they happened as a result of people dying from the impact of fasting.

NIGERIA has taken delivery of a batch of Madagascar's Covid Organics herbal remedy being touted as a cure for the dreaded coronavirus as part of a programme to get it adopted as a universally-accepted cure.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) Like many of you, I could not believe my eyes yesterday when I saw bulldozers demolishing hotels in Port Harcourt yesterday on the orders of Governor Nyesom Wike

(2) This is taking the typical African power drunkenness to unprecedented levels. Basically Wike just wants to show who is boss in Rivers State. His actions have very little to do with combating the Covid-19 pandemic