WEARING facemasks while on public transport across the UK will become compulsory as from June 15 as part of new measures introduced by the government to protect public health as it eases the coronavirus lockdown.

NURSES and doctors in New York joined the demonstrations to express their disgust at the recent murder of George Floyd and racism within the health service by marching across the city dressed in medical equipment and armed with banners.

BRITAIN'S Nigerian-born minister for equalities Kemi Badenoch has courted controversy by rejecting claims that systemic injustice is the reason why ethnic minorities are more likely to die from coronavirus in England.

FORMER Nigerian finance minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is hopeful of being elected as the next director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after President Muhammadu Buhari nominated her for the position yesterday.

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GOVERNOR Willie Obiano of Anambra State has banned expensive funerals across the state with the passing of the new burial law which compels all local government areas to open cemeteries and limits the amount spent on laying the dead to rest.

AMERICAN scientists have given a thumbs down to the anti-malaria drug Hydroxychloroquine touted by President Donald Trump as a possible cure for coronavirus saying it does not help prevent infection in a statistically meaningful way.

KATSINA State's Governor Aminu Masari has called off all negotiations with bandits operating within his domain pointing out that they have reneged on all previous agreements to lay down their arms and cease violence.

LAWMAKERS across Nigeria's southeast geo-political zone have begun moves to pass legislation in its five houses of assembly to legalise a regional security network to be known as Operation Ogbunigwe along the same lines as Amotekun in the southwest.

NIGERIA'S Gombe State's fight against the coronavirus pandemic has suffered a major setback after a member of its task force on Covid-19 died from complications arising from contracting the virus.