AkinfeAyo's blog

By Ayo Akinfe

[1] No matter how you look at it, this lockdown feels like an economic blockade for Nigeria. I can see our GDP falling from $375bn to around $200bn, our foreign earnings dropping from $28bn to about $10bn and unemployment rising by about 30%. Drastic post-Covid action will be needed to turn the tide, with foreign investment at its core

KANO Central Mosque appeared like a ghost town today as Muslims across the metropolis shunned today's weekly Friday Jumat prayers after the recent revelation that the coronavirus pandemic is now prevalent in the state.

NIGERIAN health officials have shot holes in an ambitious plan to recall thousands of diasporans back home warning that the country does not have enough isolation centres to accommodate such a huge influx of people who could be coronavirus positive.

GOVERNMENT officials have expressed concern at the way Nigerian health professionals are going about collating data on coronavirus patients claiming that anyone with a fever is now being listed as having the virus.

NIGERIA and 75 other countries have been granted debt service relief by the World Bank and China as part of a much-needed global stimulus package required to rejuvenate the world economy following the devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

NIGERIA'S diaspora community in the UK has suffered another devastating loss after Menegian Saro-Wiwa the son of the Niger Delta environmental activist Ken became the latest victim to succumb to the dreaded coronavirus.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) We lack the discipline to practise social distancing. Our inability to form orderly queues can be seen from the way people scramble for food supplies. How do you fight an airborne virus when people are involved in a daily almighty scramble for food at distribution centres?

NIGERIA Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) officials are considering introducing new regulations that would compel everyone who visits markets to wear facemasks as part of a renewed fight against the growing menace of the coronavirus pandemic.

NIGERIA Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) officials have announced ambitious plans to open 20 test centres in Lagos State as part of an intensified campaign to combat the growing menace of the dreaded coronavirus.

CALABAR clergyman Pastor Richard Daniel  has been arrested by the police after he is suspected of commissioning armed robbers to go and rob a wealthy member of his church a certain Doctor Peter Benson.