Coronavirus: Nigerian lawyers sue China for $200b

    After US lawyers sued China for trillions of dollars,  a coalition of Nigerian legal experts have also filed a class action suit against the Peoples Republic of China over the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic effect on Nigerians.

   They are demanding $200 billion as damages for the “loss of lives, economic strangulation, trauma, hardship, social disorientation, mental torture and disruption of normal daily existence of people in Nigeria.”

Imo state confirms first case of coronavirus

 

  The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Saturday said Imo State has recorded its first case of coronavirus (COVID-19).

Federal government, governors disagree over lockdown lifting

   The Federal Government is not disposed to the call by State Governors for the relaxation of the current lockdown in the country on account of the coronavirus pandemic, The Nation gathered last night.

    The federal authorities, sources said, are much in favour of partial restrictions in 33 of  the 36 states with a view to mitigating the effects of the current lockdown in many parts of the country as against the relaxation being sought by the governors. Governors Willie Obiano of Anambra State and Seyi Makinde have already relaxed the restrictions in their states.

   The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 which President Muhammadu Buhari relies on principally for advice on the pandemic is not in agreement with the governors that government should soft pedal in the FCT, Lagos, Ogun and Kano States. Buhari who is billed to address the nation on Monday is said to be weighing the options before him.

COVID-19: Four new cases recorded in Ekiti state

  Ekiti state has recorded four new cases of the Coronavirus. The state government received notice from the NCDC of the four COVID-19 positive cases on Saturday. The new cases are primary contacts of the 4th recorded case, a male doctor, aged 45 years old, who carried out a surgery on the recently deceased third positive case, during childbirth.

Boko Haram kill five persons in the convoy of a former governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff

   Boko Haram has killed five persons in the convoy of a former governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, along the Maiduguri-Damaturu highway. A security source said the terrorists attacked Sheriff’s convoy around Auno, few kilometres to Maiduguri.