AMERICAN scientists have revealed that obesity is the single biggest chronic factor in New York City’s hospitalisation of coronavirus patients as most people admitted as Covid-19 patients were found to be overweight.

NIGERIA'S fiscal situation got more precarious today after the global economic collapse brought about by the coronavirus pandemic depressed crude oil prices to just above $20 a barrel on international markets.

GOVERNOR Abdullahi Ganduje has introduced a seven day lockdown across Kano State with effect from tomorrow Thursday April 16 after the number of affected people in the state soared to nine this morning.

NIGERIA has taken delivery of 50 A30 ventilators from the United Nations (UN) as part of the ongoing assistance the country is receiving from the international community as it combats the global coronavirus pandemic.

LAGOS State government has announced ambitious plans to feed 100,000 youths daily as part of the measures required to cushion the effect of the extended lockdown as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic.

NIGERIA’S National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has revealed alarming statistics showing that the country’s security forces have killed more people for defying the government’s lockdown order than have died from the coronavirus pandemic itself.

NIGERIA'S diaspora community in the UK has lost another of its prominent citizens to the dreaded coronavirus pandemic after Manchunian Greg Lebari succumbed to the virus and sadly passed away.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) Yesterday, it emerged that the European Union (EU) gave Nigeria €50m towards fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. As has been the case with all the other private donations the federal government has received, we have not been told what this money will be used for

EVANGELICAL clergyman Bishop Gerald Glenn who defied the US government's coronavirus lockdown and held a packed service on March 22 has succumbed to the virus and died from contracting the virus.

NIGERIA has been offered a  €50m grant by the European Union (EU) to help her combat the global coronavirus pandemic as part of the international community's assistance package to developing nations.