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By Ayo Akinfe

(1) Given that three quarters of the Ajaokuta Steel Mill is now lying abandoned taken over by weeds, rodents, wild animals and rust, I would convert it into a ventilator producing facility immediately

NOLLYWOOD actress Funke Akindele and her husband Abdul Bello have been sentenced to do 14 days community service and fined N100,000 each after being found guilty of flouting the Lagos State Coronavirus Pandemic Prevention Law.

PAN-African credit rating agency Agusto & Co has predicted that there will be a 20% fall in remittances from Nigerians in the diaspora this year as a result of the economic impact of the coronavirus global pandemic.

Last year, Nigerians remitted $25bn back home but according to Agusto & Co, that figure should drop to $20bn in 2020. It attributed the projected reduction to the Covid-19 fallout, which has caused severe disruptions in the global economy.

CRIMINALS have ransacked a government warehouse in Yenagoa and carted away bags of garri being stored by the Bayelsa State Emergency Management Agency (Sema) that was to be distributed to members of the public as part of the Covid-19 relief effort.

CHINESE billionaire Jack Ma has revealed that he will making a second donation of medical equipment and drugs to Nigeria and 53 other African nations to help them combat the menace of the global coronavirus pandemic.

AMERICAN officials have warned its citizens in Nigeria currently scrambling to leave for the US against the move saying that hospitals back home are overwhelmed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic outbreak.

DOCTORS bodies the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have expressed opposition to plans to get a team of Chinese medical experts to visit the country.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) Covid-19 does not have a cure yet, so if you are having breathing difficulties, what the medics do is they put you on a ventilator until your lungs clear. It is thus no surprise why the global demand for ventilators has soared

INDIA has joined the list of nations placing restrictions on the export of medical equipment and pharmaceuticals by banning all exports of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine which President Donald Trump recently touted as a possible cure for coronavirus.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) India
(2) Brazil
(3) Indonesia
(4) Pakistan
(5) Nigeria
(6) Vietnam
(7) Philippines
(8) South Africa
(9) Egypt
(10) Mexico