NIGERIAN football fans are opposed to Manchester United striker Odion Ighalo ending his international retirement and returning to the Super Eagles after a recent online poll revealed that most fans believed he is surplus to requirements.

NIGERIA has recorded her first death from the dreaded coronavirus after the former managing director of Pipelines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC) Suleiman Achimugu died yesterday having brought the virus back from the UK.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) I am sure you will all join me in wishing Atiku Abubakar’s son a speedy recovery from this coronavirus. Personally, I see no reason why he should not recover like everyone else in Nigeria who previously tested positive

LIVING Faith Church pastor Bishop David Oyedepo defied a government ban on mass gatherings aimed at halting the spread of the dreaded coronavirus and held his usual Sunday service today  at his church headquarters in Ogun State.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) Today is supposed to be Mother’s Day. Let us use it as an opportunity to reflect, especially as the world is reeling from a global pandemic that will have dire economic consequences

(2) With the ongoing shutdowns, economic collapse and massive slowdown in global production, millions of people will soon be jobless worldwide. We are looking at another slump similar to the Great Depression

NIGERIA has banned all international flights shutting its remaining two airports after 10 new cases of the coronavirus pandemic were discovered bringing the total number of people affected in the country to 22.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) It was the French who gave us the culture of stripping criminals naked in public. They introduced this after the liberation of Paris in 1945. Women who collaborated with the Germans were stripped, had their hair shaved and paraded through the streets in shame

(2) It was Japan that gave the world suicide bombing with its Kamikaze pilots

LAGOS State health officials are keeping a close watch on about 1,300 people to see if they show any signs of having the dreaded coronavirus as part of a programme to ensure that the virus does not spread across the country.

ENUGU State has taken the lead in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus in Nigeria by approving the sum of N330m ($896,005) to fight any outbreak and relocating its isolation centre to the Enugu State University Teaching (Esut) Hospital.

SAUDI Arabia has banned the export of all medicines and medical equipment decreeing that everything must be kept internal to enable local health authorities combat domestic incidences of the coronavirus outbreak.