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GOVERNOR Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has been urged by the Christian Association of Nigeria (Can) to review the lockdown imposed aimed at combating the spread of coronavirus and open churches and mosques to worshippers.

UNITED Nations (UN) secretary-general Antonio Guterres has revealed that a sum of $200bn needs to be set aside to provide Africa with a post-coronavirus economic stimulus given the unprecedented damage the pandemic has caused to the continent.

NIGERIA'S National Agency for Food Drugs and Administration Control (Nafdac) has confirmed that it has received four different submissions from local producers claiming that have uncovered a drug which can cure the coronavirus.

NIGERIA'S petroleum production is facing the prospect of a total shutdown as operators have been forced to reduce the number of crude oil rigs as global demands keeps falling as the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic bites hard.

NIGERIAN televangelist Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has been sanctioned by British media regulator Ofcom after his TV channel Loveworld News broadcast a programme in which he linked the 5G telecommunications technology with the coronavirus pandemic.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) It is common knowledge that Nigeria is the world’s largest cassava producer with an annual crop of about 60m tonnes accounting for some 20% of global output

CHINESE health authorities have revealed that they are confident of bringing out a drug with the power to cure coronavirus before the end of the year as scientists at the Peking University are just months from coming up with a cure.

NIGERIA has recorded its first coronavirus set of twins after a 22-year-old patient receiving treatment at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (Luth) after being diagnosed as Covgid-19 positive delivered a boy and a girl.

GOVERNOR Abdullahi Ganduje has approved the holding of Eid prayers across Kano State this Friday despite the coronavirus pandemic still being virulent across the state after holding a meeting with 30 top Islamic scholars.

BRITISH health authorities have revealed that one of the reasons why the Covid-19 pandemic spread so rapidly across the country is because care home staff supplied by agencies unwittingly spread the virus in their places of work.