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NAIROBI'S governor Mike Sonko has added the popular alcoholic drink Hennessy to the list of essential relief items he is handing out to Kenyans during the coronavirus lockdown period claiming it is an effective throat sanitizer.

INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) officials have warned that Nigeria is facing the prospect of her worst recession in 30 years as a result of the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic that is currently sweeping the globe.

FINANCIAL institutions including the World Bank have warned African governments against initiating copycat lockdowns in response to the global coronavirus pandemic as the economic impact of such actions could end up causing more lethal damage.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's chief of staff Mallam Abba Kyari has become Nigeria's most high profile casualty of the dreaded coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe after he succumbed to it yesterday and passed away.

By Ayo Akinfe

[1] No matter how you look at it, this lockdown feels like an economic blockade for Nigeria. I can see our GDP falling from $375bn to around $200bn, our foreign earnings dropping from $28bn to about $10bn and unemployment rising by about 30%. Drastic post-Covid action will be needed to turn the tide, with foreign investment at its core

KANO Central Mosque appeared like a ghost town today as Muslims across the metropolis shunned today's weekly Friday Jumat prayers after the recent revelation that the coronavirus pandemic is now prevalent in the state.

NIGERIAN health officials have shot holes in an ambitious plan to recall thousands of diasporans back home warning that the country does not have enough isolation centres to accommodate such a huge influx of people who could be coronavirus positive.

GOVERNMENT officials have expressed concern at the way Nigerian health professionals are going about collating data on coronavirus patients claiming that anyone with a fever is now being listed as having the virus.

NIGERIA and 75 other countries have been granted debt service relief by the World Bank and China as part of a much-needed global stimulus package required to rejuvenate the world economy following the devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

NIGERIA'S diaspora community in the UK has suffered another devastating loss after Menegian Saro-Wiwa the son of the Niger Delta environmental activist Ken became the latest victim to succumb to the dreaded coronavirus.