By Ayo Akinfe

Areas where there needs to be serious cutbacks:

(1) Owambes
(2) Chieftaincy title acquisitions
(3) Tithes
(4) Spraying at parties
(5) Parties in Dubai
(6) The proliferation of monarchs
(7) Relentless aso ebi sewing
(8) Each family owning more than two cars
(9) Owning more than two homes
(10) Going abroad for medical treatment

FEDERAL government health officials has expressed dismay at the speed with which Nigerian state governors have lifted the restrictions on social distancing aimed at curbing the spread of the Covid-19 virus.

UNITED Nations (UN)  health experts have warned that a mental illness crisis is looming as millions of people are surrounded by death and disease and forced into isolation and poverty by the global coronavirus pandemic.

FORMER Nigerian president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has warned that as many as 80m Africans could be pushed into extreme poverty due to the disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic to the continent's food system.

ABIA State government has warned all northerners living within its borders that it will not hesitate to shut down all the cattle markets in its territory if they continue defying the coronavirus lockdown guidelines by receiving kinsmen from up north.

NIGERIA'S embassy in Thailand has written to all its citizens in the country informing them that if they wish to be repatriated back home they will need to pay a sum of N297,600 ($760.46) to cover the cost of their accommodation and quarantine costs upon arrival.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) As the weeks go by, the number of barrels of crude oil Nigeria cannot sell is growing by the day. We are not alone in this as every other Opec nation is facing a similar problem. Supply and demand fundamentals are a reality, so with this glut, petroleum prices are certain to remain depressed for the foreseeable future

NIGERIA'S governors have asked the National Assembly to hold fire on the proposed controversial Infectious Disease Bill which if passed with give the health minister sweeping powers to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

GOVERNOR Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara State has sacked an ambulance driver employed by the civil service for unilaterally attending to a man who was evacuated in an ambulance in Ilorin after contracting coronavirus.

BORNO State government has suspended the lockdown imposed on non-essential movement following significant progress in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic that has resulted in infection figures falling.