FEARS are growing that Nigeria may have to reintroduce a nationwide lockdown to arrest the growing spread of the coronavirus pandemic after there was a sudden surge in the number of cases following a partial lifting of restrictions on Monday.

By Ayo Akinfe

With rising figures, the potential for an explosion in Kano and the virus spreading to all states, planning should now be underway about what should be done if that pandemic gets out of control. If you ask me, after seeing the irresponsible attitude of our citizens in Lagos and Abuja yesterday, I think it is inevitable that we will soon witness a frightening spread of the virus.

INDIA has set aside 461,589 hectares of land for a massive industrial park nearly double the size of Luxembourg as part of an ambitious plan to lure businesses away China in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

NIGERIAN ministers secretly entered into an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to increase electricity tariffs across the country as from next year as part of the pact to secure the recent $3.4bn loan to offset the effects of the Covid-19 shutdown.

NIGERIAN evacuees returning to the country from abroad are due to start arriving on Saturday after the Lagos State government secured a 300-bed facility  to accommodate any of them who test coronavirus positive.

POLICE in Anambra State have arrested a security guard for killing a member of the public by stabbing him in the chest with a knife following an altercation over not wearing a facemask in defiance of the government's social distancing restrictions.

MADAGASCAR has announced plans build a factory that will mass produce its new coronavirus herbal remedy known as Covid Organics as part of a programme to get it universally accepted as a cure for the pandemic.

NIGERIA Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) director-general Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu has warned that the federal government may have to extend the lockdown introduced as a result of the coronavirus pandemic because of a lack of public compliance with guidelines.

By Ayo Akinfe

[1] Kano State is fast becoming the new epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria as it is now number two behind Lagos State in terms of affected people. As of this morning, it had 365 cases, of which there have been eight unfortunate deaths

ALUMNI of the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED) in Lagos State have pledged to mass-produce facemasks for all students of the institution and its surrounding community in the Oto/Ijanikin area.