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CIVIL society body the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (Huriwa) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the chairman of the Covid-19 presidential taskforce Boss Mustapha for flagrantly breaching government social distancing guidelines.

ONE of President Donald Trump's passionate supporters who opposed the current lockdown marching against it last week calling the whole plan a deception has died from the virus at a hospital in Columbus in Ohio.

NIGERIA'S Muslim Coalition Against Covid-19 has launched a radical relief operation aimed at getting essential food items to the needy and mobilising 700 health workers into the field to treat the sick.

RUMOURS are rife that as much as N700bn ($1.8bn) worth of Covid-19 relief funds were lost as a result of the recent fire which gutted Treasury House in Abuja that houses the office of the accountant-general of the federation.

Here are my 10:

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) Target a minimum of $20bn from the export of processed agricultural products like chocolate from cocoa, animal feed from cassava, furniture from timber, palm oil derivatives, etc

(2) Woo every car manufacturer to open a production plant where they make at least one component in Nigeria. The job creation will boost income tax and corporation tax intake significantly

POLICE operating at a checkpoint on the border or Oyo and Osun states got a rude shock on Sunday when a passenger suspected to have been a victim of the coronavirus pandemic died right in front of them.

NIGERIAN health officials have announced plans to drastically increase the number of coronavirus tests they conduct setting themselves a daily target 3,500 in a bid to bring the Covid-19 pandemic under control.

GOVERNOR Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has ordered the mass production of face masks to be distributed to the citizens for free as part of his plan to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

PRESIDENT Donald Trump has announced controversial plans to suspend all immigration into the US as part of his post-coronavirus economic recovery plan saying that the measure was necessary to protect American jobs.

LAGOS State health officials have closed six private clinics including the one where the former presidency chief of staff Mallam Abba Kyari was recently treated as they pose a serious risk to the public because their staff have been exposed to coronavirus.