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BRITISH scientist Professor Sarah Gilbert has expressed optimism that an effective vaccine against coronavirus should be ready by September this year as work on the cure is 80% complete by her team at Oxford University.

NIGERIAN government ministers have commenced talks with local automobile form the Innoson Vehicles Manufacturing Company (IVMC) about the possibility of making ventilator machines at its Nnewi plant.

NIGERIA'S embassy in Beijing is preparing to evacuate all of its citizens from China in response to the terrible discrimination they are suffering from in the hands of the Chinese authorities as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

NIGERIAN community activist in the UK Dele Jalad has become the latest victim of the global pandemic coronavirus after he succumbed to the virus yesterday and passed away in hospital.

GOVERNOR Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has bowed to pressure and cancelled plans to suspend the coronavirus lockdown tomorrow that would have enabled churches to  hold Easter Monday services  amid concerns that it would lead to the spread of the virus.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) One packet of 5kg of rice
(2) One packet of 5kg of gari
(3) One packet of 5kg of beans
(4) Two tubes of yam
(5) Two loaves of bread
(6) One gallon of cooking oil
(7) One crate of 30 eggs
(8) Two litres of milk
(9) Four litres of water
(10) Four tins of tomatoes

Now, here is some background research we needed to have carried out as soon as this crisis broke:

LAGOS State health officials are to commence a house-to-house search across all the 20 local government areas in a bid to fish out people suspected of being infected with coronavirus having come in contact with known victims.

NIGERIA'S National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) has announced plans to unveil mobile testing and treatment vehicles as part of measures to combat the spread of the dreaded coronavirus pandemic.

SEVERAL Nigerian states have relaxed their coronavirus lockdown rules in the run-up to Easter as part of a programme to allow residents engage in some shopping and participate in religious worship to mark the festivities.

CHADIAN president Idriss Deby has announced that his troops will no longer participate in operations against Boko Haram outside his country's borders in what appears to be his exasperation with Nigeria's reluctance to take on the terrorists.