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.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) Over the last few days, Europe and the US have stepped up the return of looted Abacha funds to Nigeria to help with the Covid-19 crisis. The British island of Jersey just returned $311m, with the UK and France promising to return another $319m in due course

SEAFARERS and maritime workers have expressed frustration that they are having to live aboard their ships during the current crisis as the lack of crew changes and their inability to discharge their cargoes has made them virtual prisoners aboard their vessels.

BOTH the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) and the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Covid-19 have expressed frustration at the nonchalant attitude of public towards the coronavirus pandemic following the recent lifting of some of the restrictions by the government.

NIGERIA'S National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (Nafdac) has been asked to commence studies into a possible plant-based cough mixture that could serve as a cure for Covid-19.

WINNERS Chapel's founder Bishop David Oyedepo has added his voice to the call for the ban on church congregations to be lifted saying he suspects there is an ulterior motive behind keeping them shut during the coronavirus pandemic crisis.

ITALY'S supreme court has ruled that it is not a crime to steal food to eat if you are hungry in a landmark ruling brought about by the rise in the number of people having to take desperate measure as the coronavirus lockdown hits hard.

By Ayo Akinfe

FINANCE minister Zainab Ahmed has revised Nigeria's budget downwards again in response to the unending global economic meltdown pegging the crude oil benchmark price as $20 a barrel.