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GOVERNOR Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has bowed to pressure and cancelled plans to suspend the coronavirus lockdown tomorrow that would have enabled churches to  hold Easter Monday services  amid concerns that it would lead to the spread of the virus.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) One packet of 5kg of rice
(2) One packet of 5kg of gari
(3) One packet of 5kg of beans
(4) Two tubes of yam
(5) Two loaves of bread
(6) One gallon of cooking oil
(7) One crate of 30 eggs
(8) Two litres of milk
(9) Four litres of water
(10) Four tins of tomatoes

Now, here is some background research we needed to have carried out as soon as this crisis broke:

LAGOS State health officials are to commence a house-to-house search across all the 20 local government areas in a bid to fish out people suspected of being infected with coronavirus having come in contact with known victims.

NIGERIA'S National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) has announced plans to unveil mobile testing and treatment vehicles as part of measures to combat the spread of the dreaded coronavirus pandemic.

SEVERAL Nigerian states have relaxed their coronavirus lockdown rules in the run-up to Easter as part of a programme to allow residents engage in some shopping and participate in religious worship to mark the festivities.

CHADIAN president Idriss Deby has announced that his troops will no longer participate in operations against Boko Haram outside his country's borders in what appears to be his exasperation with Nigeria's reluctance to take on the terrorists.

ONDO State government has relaxed its restrictions on social distancing allowing Christians to attend church services during the Easter period setting a dangerous precedent that could open the floodgates for a nationwide defiance of the lockdown order.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) Like the rest of you, I saw those videos of Nigerians being humiliated in China. They were treated like animals simply because they are Africans. They are regarded as inferior beings and herded around like they are livestock

GOVERNMENT ministers have revised Nigeria's 2020 budget downwards to N5.08trn (13.4bn) from the recent figure of N8.41trn ($22.1bn) as a result of the economic collapse brought about the lockdown introduced to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

NIGERIA'S main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the country to hold President Muhammadu Buhari responsible if the team of Chinese medical experts who recently arrived in the country make the situation worse.