SOCIO-cultural group the Northern Elders Forum (Nef) has accused several state governors in Nigeria of falsifying figures when it comes to the number of people affected by the coronavirus pandemic in a bid to qualify them for relief money.

MINISTER of state for labour and employment Festus Keyamo has used the occasion of May Day to assure Nigerian workers that the federal government will do its best to keep job losses brought about by the coronavirus crisis to the bare minimum.

BRITAIN has rejected a consignment of 250 ventilators imported from China to combat the coronavirus pandemic claiming they are unsuitable for use in hospitals and potentially dangerous for patients.

INTENSIVE care nurse Adekunle Enitan has become the latest Nigerian to succumb to the dreaded coronavirus pandemic in the UK after giving up the ghost at the William Harvey Hospital in Kent where he worked.

Mr Enitan, 55, popularly known as Ade, who was a father of two children, had worked at the hospital in Ashford for five years. He has been described by colleagues as a kind, cheery soul who went above and beyond to care for patients.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) If you ask me, what we are currently witnessing is a war. This time it is not against guns and bullets but the effects are the same and as with the case with any war, you need a reconstruction plan. Every war is always followed by a reconstruction plan and this is no different

RETIRED road safety officer Femi Adeoye has been appointed as a Covid-19 response ambassador by Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State after he came to national prominence for refusing to let his son in until he had been cleared as free of coronavirus.

MEN of the Jigawa State Police Command have arrested a 30-year old man named as Alasan Audu in Ringim Local Government Area of the state for raping his recently-wedded teenage wife to death.

In a tragic case of child abuse, Mr Audu raped his 17-year old wife to death after she denied him sex for 20 days following their wedding. According to the police, Mr Audu raped Hansa’u to death on April 21, at Kankarelu village in Ringim Local Government Area of Jigawa State.

NIGERIA'S federal government has unveiled a six-week plan broken down into three tranches detailing how it will gradually lift all the restrictions put in place to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

FOUR men have sentenced to spend 14 days in isolation by an Ilorin Magistrates Court for attempting to escape with a coronavirus patient identified as Kazeem Oladayo from a quarantine centre after he was diagnosed as Covid-19 positive.

NIGERIA will be spending as much as 75% of her annual revenue on debt servicing by 2024 according to a recent grim report from the World Bank which indicates that the economy is being saddled with debts it cannot handle.