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.

MADAGASCAR'S government has sent Nigeria a bill of €170,000 to cover the cost of the samples of the herbal remedy Covid Organics which were recently despatched as part of an attempt to get global acceptance.

GLOBAL soccer federation Fifa has announced plans to hold a charity football match to raise funds for Access to Covid-19 Tools (Act) as part of its contribution towards combating the coronavirus pandemic.

ISLAMIC group Muslim Rights Concern (Muric) has expressed its opposition to the recent opening of mosques by several Nigerian state governors warning that the move could lead to the intensified sp[read of the Covid-19 pandemic.

SIERRA Leone's federal government has appointed Nigerian doctor Dr Laoluwa Adejayan as the head of the country's Covid-19 task force having adjudged him to be the most qualified person for the job.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) Over recent weeks we have been reading countless reports about how the almajiris might spread the coronavirus across Nigeria, making it spiral out of control. Nobody appears to have come up with a solution to the problem so far

(2) According to Unicef, there are 9.5m almajiris in Nigeria. Street urchins with no hope whatsoever who will either end up as beggars, criminals or at worst terrorists

FOREIGN airlines are planning to resume flights to Nigeria at the beginning of June as the global lockdown introduced as a result of the coronavirus pandemic is being gradually eased with some sort of normality returning.

By Ayo Akinfe

WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) experts have pointed out that there is no conclusive  evidence to prove that the Covid-19 virus can be contracted by touching surfaces such as handles and doorknobs after studying a series of recent tests.

JIGAWA State health authorities have raised fears of a possible spread of the Covid-19 virus after 21 urchins popularly known as almajiris who recently arrived from neighbouring Kano State tested coronavirus-positive.