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NIGERIAN televangelist Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has been sanctioned by British media regulator Ofcom after his TV channel Loveworld News broadcast a programme in which he linked the 5G telecommunications technology with the coronavirus pandemic.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) It is common knowledge that Nigeria is the world’s largest cassava producer with an annual crop of about 60m tonnes accounting for some 20% of global output

CHINESE health authorities have revealed that they are confident of bringing out a drug with the power to cure coronavirus before the end of the year as scientists at the Peking University are just months from coming up with a cure.

NIGERIA has recorded its first coronavirus set of twins after a 22-year-old patient receiving treatment at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (Luth) after being diagnosed as Covgid-19 positive delivered a boy and a girl.

GOVERNOR Abdullahi Ganduje has approved the holding of Eid prayers across Kano State this Friday despite the coronavirus pandemic still being virulent across the state after holding a meeting with 30 top Islamic scholars.

BRITISH health authorities have revealed that one of the reasons why the Covid-19 pandemic spread so rapidly across the country is because care home staff supplied by agencies unwittingly spread the virus in their places of work.

NIGERIA has agreed to foot the bill of accommodating and feeding returnees who have been repatriated from abroad by special scheduled flights as the federal government steps up its evacuation of citizens trapped abroad by the coronavirus pandemic.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) Mull over it as much as you want but the fact remains that crude oil prices will not hit $100 a barrel for at least another two years. This puts Nigeria in a perilous position as 95% of government revenue comes from the sale of petroleum products

(2) In the past, Nigeria has got out of such cul-de-sacs by borrowing. We cannot even do that now as virtually every economy on the planet is in recession too

BRITISH authorities have announced plans to start using dogs to detect the Covid-19 virus under a pilot programme that will involve labradors and cocker spaniels sniffing out humans who are carrying the virus.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has made a dramatic U-turn and decided that he will no longer make a nationwide broadcast tonight on the status of the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the country.