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NIGERIAN nurse Esther Akinsanya has become the latest member of the UK diaspora to succumb to the coronavirus pandemic after contracting the virus in the London hospital where she worked.

OYO State government is contemplating sending 1,800 bags of rice it received from the federal government back to Abuja after tests revealed that they were contaminated and unfit for human consumption.

FORMER Nigerian finance minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed as a special envoy for the newly inaugurated Access to Covid-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

NIGERIAN laboratory the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (Acegid) has joined the global race to find a coronavirus vaccine under a joint partnership with Cambridge University in the UK.

By Ayo Akinfe

As nobody is interested in buying our crude oil anymore, the only thing we can do with it is start the mass manufacturing a raft of synthetic products and seek to export them.

Our production list should look something like this:

LAGOS State government has approved an increase in the hazard allowance paid out to its health workers in the public service in appreciating of their role in fighting the coronavirus pandemic upping their pay to N25,000 ($64) from N5,000 a month.

NOLLYWOOD actress Caroline Danjuma has sacked her domestic househelp identified as Oyindamola Alexander after she checked into a Lagos clinic for treatment after allegedly contracting coronavirus from her boss's son.

SCIENTISTS looking for a Covid-19 cure have suffered a major setback after the World Health Organisation revealed that experimental trials of the anti-viral ebola drug Remdesivir failed in its first randomised clinical trial.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari and the sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Sa'ad Abubakar  who is the chairman of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) have urged the country's Muslims to stick to social distancing guidelines during the period of Ramadan.

MAYOR of Osaka Ichiro Matsui has suggested that one way of slowing down the spread of the coronavirus pandemic is for men to grocery shopping as women spend too long in stores thus spreading the virus further.