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PLANS by Nigeria to immediately evacuate her citizens from China suffered a serious setback after 72 citizens in the city of Guangzhou tested coronavirus positive meaning that  they cannot be airlifted immediately.

NIGERIA'S federal government has issued an edict banning the transfer of coronavirus patients between states making it compulsory that anyone tested as Covis-19 positive must be treated within the state that they are diagnosed.

GOVERNORS of Nigeria's 36 states have unanimously resolved to a introduce two-week inter-state lockdown starting from today as part of measures required to contain spread of the dreaded coronavirus pandemic across the country.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) I for one am ecstatic about the fact that crude oil is no longer profitable. It has been an albatross around Nigeria’s neck since 1958 and now that the old tree has died, it is time for the shoots to grow

CHINA'S team of medical professionals who arrived in Nigeria earlier this month are due to start work today as the 14-day quarantine period for which they had to remain in isolation has ended.

CIVIL society body the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (Huriwa) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the chairman of the Covid-19 presidential taskforce Boss Mustapha for flagrantly breaching government social distancing guidelines.

ONE of President Donald Trump's passionate supporters who opposed the current lockdown marching against it last week calling the whole plan a deception has died from the virus at a hospital in Columbus in Ohio.

NIGERIA'S Muslim Coalition Against Covid-19 has launched a radical relief operation aimed at getting essential food items to the needy and mobilising 700 health workers into the field to treat the sick.

RUMOURS are rife that as much as N700bn ($1.8bn) worth of Covid-19 relief funds were lost as a result of the recent fire which gutted Treasury House in Abuja that houses the office of the accountant-general of the federation.

Here are my 10:

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) Target a minimum of $20bn from the export of processed agricultural products like chocolate from cocoa, animal feed from cassava, furniture from timber, palm oil derivatives, etc

(2) Woo every car manufacturer to open a production plant where they make at least one component in Nigeria. The job creation will boost income tax and corporation tax intake significantly