FORMER Nigerian finance minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed as a special envoy for the newly inaugurated Access to Covid-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

NIGERIAN laboratory the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (Acegid) has joined the global race to find a coronavirus vaccine under a joint partnership with Cambridge University in the UK.

By Ayo Akinfe

As nobody is interested in buying our crude oil anymore, the only thing we can do with it is start the mass manufacturing a raft of synthetic products and seek to export them.

Our production list should look something like this:

LAGOS State government has approved an increase in the hazard allowance paid out to its health workers in the public service in appreciating of their role in fighting the coronavirus pandemic upping their pay to N25,000 ($64) from N5,000 a month.

NOLLYWOOD actress Caroline Danjuma has sacked her domestic househelp identified as Oyindamola Alexander after she checked into a Lagos clinic for treatment after allegedly contracting coronavirus from her boss's son.

SCIENTISTS looking for a Covid-19 cure have suffered a major setback after the World Health Organisation revealed that experimental trials of the anti-viral ebola drug Remdesivir failed in its first randomised clinical trial.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari and the sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Sa'ad Abubakar  who is the chairman of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) have urged the country's Muslims to stick to social distancing guidelines during the period of Ramadan.

MAYOR of Osaka Ichiro Matsui has suggested that one way of slowing down the spread of the coronavirus pandemic is for men to grocery shopping as women spend too long in stores thus spreading the virus further.

FORMER Super Eagles skipper Mikel Obi has distributed 1,800 crates of eggs to vulnerable households across Nigeria as his contribution to the ongoing fight against coronavirus and measures to ameliorate the impact of the lockdown.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) With Nigeria receiving no revenue at the moment due to the collapse in both the price and demand for crude oil, we are facing a dilemma. How do we generate income to keep the economy going when nobody is interested in buying the one commodity that we rely on for survival?