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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.

FORMER Super Eagles skipper Mikel Obi has distributed 1,800 crates of eggs to vulnerable households across Nigeria as his contribution to the ongoing fight against coronavirus and measures to ameliorate the impact of the lockdown.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) With Nigeria receiving no revenue at the moment due to the collapse in both the price and demand for crude oil, we are facing a dilemma. How do we generate income to keep the economy going when nobody is interested in buying the one commodity that we rely on for survival?

IRATE youths in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State recently stripped a police constable and his partner naked and beat them up severely on suspicion of being homosexual and engaging in gay activity.

LOUISIANA clergyman Tony Spell has asked his parishioners to hand over the stimulus payments they receive from the US government to their pastors because men of the cloth are not beneficiaries of the handouts.

PLANS by Nigeria to immediately evacuate her citizens from China suffered a serious setback after 72 citizens in the city of Guangzhou tested coronavirus positive meaning that  they cannot be airlifted immediately.