NIGERIANS trapped abroad during the coronavirus pandemic wishing to return home will now have to pay for the cost of their transportation and accommodation under new guidelines just published by the federal government.

FRANCE has intervened in the crisis afflicting the global aviation industry by agreeing to make $16.9bn available to its airlines in a bid to stimulate the sector as it reels from the effects of the shutdown brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.

ENGLISH Premier League leaders Liverpool have pulled out of the quest to purchase Super Eagles winger Samuel Chukwueze from Spanish side Villarreal this summer after coming to the conclusion that his €60m is more than the club can afford.

FORMER Abia State governor Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has resumed his duties as the chief whip of the Nigerian senate six months after being convicted of fraud and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment by a Lagos federal high court.

BORNO South Senatorial District's lawmaker Senator Ali Ndume has courted controversy by suggesting that Nigerian civil servants who no longer go to work due to the Covid-19 pandemic should be subject to salary reductions.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) As the world has finally come to accept that the negro is unfairly treated, I have been wracking my brains to look for a solution to the problem. No matter how you look at it, this prejudice and bias will never go away until we have an African economy that sits at the high table of humanity

MILLIONS of students in The Philippines will not be allowed back to school until a coronavirus vaccine is available according to government officials who believe that resuming classes now will be too big a risk to take.

NIGERIAN passengers who arrive in the UK as from today will have to go into two weeks of isolation under new laws that have come into effect as part of government plans to contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus.

GOVERNOR Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has tested positive for coronavirus and has subsequently gone into isolation where he will remain quarantined for 14 days on line with Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) guidelines.

FORMER Super Eagles winger Victor Moses may return to Chelsea at the end of the season after manager Frank Lampard revealed that he may need to recall him from his loan spell in Italy to beef up his team.