HEALTH workers at the Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital (Dash) in the Nasarawa State capital Lafia have embarked upon a seven-day strike to press for adequate provision of personal protective equipments (PPE) and improved welfare as they combat Covid-19.

NIGERIA'S former finance minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has emerged as the frontrunner to become the next director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after Egypt's objection to her nomination was rejected.

WORLD heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua and his main challenger Tyson Fury have reached an in-principle agreement to meet in two blockbuster fights over the next couples of years to determine who is the undisputed kingpin if the division.

NIGERIA is expected to remain home to 12% of the planet's poorest people for at least the next year as the spread of the coronavirus pandemic looks set to create the worst economic recession in 80 years according to the World Bank.

NIGERIA'S minister of power Sale Mamman has boasted about the fact that members of the public now enjoy between 18 to 24 hours of electricity daily as a result of the improvements brought about by the current Buhari administration.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Eyo Festival in Lagos. Why should it not compete with London’s Notting Hill Carnival?

(2) Usman Dan Fodio’s tomb. Let us try and make it a pilgrimage site for Muslims that competes with the Kaaba

(3) Samuel Ajayi Crowther’s tomb. It should be a Christian pilgrimage site that competes with Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity

(4) Badagry’s slave castle. It needs its own railway station, hotels, restaurants, cafes, bars, etc

NIGERIANS trapped abroad during the coronavirus pandemic wishing to return home will now have to pay for the cost of their transportation and accommodation under new guidelines just published by the federal government.

FRANCE has intervened in the crisis afflicting the global aviation industry by agreeing to make $16.9bn available to its airlines in a bid to stimulate the sector as it reels from the effects of the shutdown brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.

ENGLISH Premier League leaders Liverpool have pulled out of the quest to purchase Super Eagles winger Samuel Chukwueze from Spanish side Villarreal this summer after coming to the conclusion that his €60m is more than the club can afford.

FORMER Abia State governor Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has resumed his duties as the chief whip of the Nigerian senate six months after being convicted of fraud and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment by a Lagos federal high court.