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FEARS are growing among Nigerian health officials that the coronavirus pandemic may have a lingering effect in the country as the death toll over the last week has increased by 240% and the number of people testing positive is also rising.

NIGERIA'S combined debts to the World Bank and African Development Bank (AfDB) doubled to $14.25bn as of at the end of March this year from $7.14bn in June 2015 according to information just released by the Debt Management Office (DMO).

NIGERIAN businesswoman Yekemi Otaru has been named as the new chancellor-elect if the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) succeeding Dame Elish Angiolini and is due to assume office on September 1.

LAWYERS representing Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemo are optimistic that their client will be released from jail this week as they should get a response to the asylum application he has made.

ENGLISH Premier League side Crystal Palace are looking to sign Nigerian striker Ademola Lookman on a season-long loan as part of manager Patrick Vieira's ongoing programme to significantly strengthen his squad ahead of the 2021/22 campaign.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] 10m tonnes of steel

[2] 20m pre-paid electricity metres

[3] 5m electricity transformers

[4] 20m mobile phone handsets

[5] 2m automobiles must be assembled locally

[6] 10m flatscreen TV sets

[7] 10m tonnes of maize

[8] 5m tonnes of sugar

[9] 10 tonnes of rice

[10] 50m pairs of footwear

[11] 1,000 railway carriages

[12] 20bn kg of milk

[13] 2m tonnes of beef

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nothing cures boredom like the beautiful game called football with its creativity. Football was actually the only thing the Taliban could not ban in Afghanistan. I do not know of one thing that unites humanity like football. Nigeria needs to cash in on it

ISLAMIC Movement of Nigeria (IMN) leader Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife Zeena are planning to embark on a foreign medical trip following their recent acquittal and release by a Kaduna high court after six year in detention.

NIGERIA'S greatest Olympic medal hope Blessing Okagbare has been suspended from further participation on the games after failing a dope test this morning when she tested positive for using a human growth hormone.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] As we enter August, the height of the summer period when tourism is at its peak, Nigeria needs to start thinking tourism. Due to Covid-19, many traditional tourist destinations cannot be visited, so we should be using it as an opportunity to fill that vacuum. President Buhari should be offering to eliminate Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, bandits, kidnappers, etc bu 2022 in exchange for the rest of the world adopting Nigeria as a major tourist destination