FOREIGN airlines are planning to resume flights to Nigeria at the beginning of June as the global lockdown introduced as a result of the coronavirus pandemic is being gradually eased with some sort of normality returning.

By Ayo Akinfe

WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) experts have pointed out that there is no conclusive  evidence to prove that the Covid-19 virus can be contracted by touching surfaces such as handles and doorknobs after studying a series of recent tests.

JIGAWA State health authorities have raised fears of a possible spread of the Covid-19 virus after 21 urchins popularly known as almajiris who recently arrived from neighbouring Kano State tested coronavirus-positive.

NIGERIA'S battle to combat the debilitating coronavirus pandemic is being hampered by the continued exposure of healthworkers to danger as about 250 nurses and midwifes are currently being held in isolation.

By Ayo Akinfe

Areas where there needs to be serious cutbacks:

(1) Owambes
(2) Chieftaincy title acquisitions
(3) Tithes
(4) Spraying at parties
(5) Parties in Dubai
(6) The proliferation of monarchs
(7) Relentless aso ebi sewing
(8) Each family owning more than two cars
(9) Owning more than two homes
(10) Going abroad for medical treatment

FEDERAL government health officials has expressed dismay at the speed with which Nigerian state governors have lifted the restrictions on social distancing aimed at curbing the spread of the Covid-19 virus.

UNITED Nations (UN)  health experts have warned that a mental illness crisis is looming as millions of people are surrounded by death and disease and forced into isolation and poverty by the global coronavirus pandemic.

FORMER Nigerian president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has warned that as many as 80m Africans could be pushed into extreme poverty due to the disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic to the continent's food system.

ABIA State government has warned all northerners living within its borders that it will not hesitate to shut down all the cattle markets in its territory if they continue defying the coronavirus lockdown guidelines by receiving kinsmen from up north.