NIGERIAN health officials have warned that the federal government is running out of bed spaces at isolation centres as the growing number of people affected by coronavirus is overwhelming the amount of available facilities.

NIGERIAN government ministers have been told by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to keep receipts from all expenditures incurred from the recent $3.4bn loan they received as they will be asked to account for the emergency coronavirus bailout.

SALT Lake City's Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has directed that all of its members be refunded the tithes they have paid over the last three years to enable them cope with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) As we celebrate the end of World War Two that came about today 75 years ago with the formal German surrender in Berlin in 1945, I cannot but keep drawing parallels between then and now. With this coronavirus pandemic, we are faced with similar economic challenges

NIGERIA'S poultry farmers have warned that the nation is facing the prospect of starvation come 2021 as a result of the lockdown introduced by the government in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

AFRICAN diaspora youths have launched an international black contemporary arts platform named ISE-DA created to link them up and serve as a cultural hub through which they can exchange ideas and develop the sector.

NIGERIA'S international airports are to remain closed for another four weeks at least after the federal government decided to extend the ban on flights into and out of the country for another four weeks.

READING midfielder Ovie Ejaria has indicated that he is willing to commit his international future to Nigeria's Super Eagles at senior level despite sinning the U20 World Cup with England in 2017.

FORMER Abia State governor Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has had his 12 year conviction for corruption and money laundering quashed by the Nigerian Supreme Court today on a technicality that he was convicted by the wrong type of court.

BRITISH authorities have agreed to allow National Health Service (NHS) staff from black Asian and minority ethnic (Bame) backgrounds to operate away from the frontline after recent research showed that they are more vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic.