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Africa has got to be at the heart of the inevitable post-coronavirus Marshall Plan


By Ayo Akinfe

(1) As the global lockdown continues, I am trying to count the economic cost. This shutdown will simply be devastating on mankind because we are consuming and not producing goods at the same rate. This is simply not sustainable for any lengthy period of time. It reminds me of the Great Depression that followed the 1929 Wall Street Crash

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Boris Johnson tests positive for coronavirus and goes into 14 day self-isolation

BRITISH prime minister Boris Johnson has become the latest high profile personality to test positive for the dreaded coronavirus pandemic that is currently sweeping the globe and has subsequently gone into isolation.

 

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Nigerians rush to buy local remedies like dogonyaro and tagairi believing them to be Covid-19 cures

NIGERIANS have stepped up the purchase of traditional herbs like neem popularly known as dogonyaro and laganaria breviflorus known locally as tagairi in the belief that these traditional remedies will act as a cure for the dreaded coronavirus.

 

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Nigerian health minister says he believes Covid-19 can be transmitted through sexual intercourse

NIGERIA'S health minister Dr Osagie Ehanire has warned that there is a nigh possibility that coronavirus can be transmitted sexually although there is no conclusive medical evidence to prove this theory either way.

 

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France evacuates all its nationals from Nigeria as special Air-France KLM plane lands in Lagos

FRANCE has airlifted all of its nationals out of Nigeria after an Air-France KLM aircraft landed at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos yesterday having received special permission from the aviation ministry.

 

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US overtakes Italy and China and the country with the most number of coronavirus cases

AMERICA has now become the country with the most cases of coronavirus in the world as the number of its affected citizens have surpassed those in China and Italy rising to a total of 85,612 people.

 

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China's Shanghai Shenhua offers Ighalo new £400,000 contract in a bid to lure him from Man United

ODION Ighalo has been offered a new bumper contract worth £400,000 a week by his Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua in a bid to get him to return at the end of his six month loan period with England's Manchester United.

 

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Fears grow that Nigeria’s health minister may be in self-isolation having been in contact with Abba Kyari

FEARS are growing that Nigeria’s health minister Dr Osagie Ehanire may be in self-isolation amid the possibility that he may be at risk of contracting the dreaded coronavirus after being in close contact with the affected chief of staff to the president Mallam Abba Kyari.

 

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Nigeria Centre for Disease Control warns that chloroquine has not yet been approved by WHO

NIGERIAN health officials have warned the general public to ignore rumours that chloroquine has been approved as an effective remedy for the devastating coronavirus pandemic currently sweeping the globe.

 

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