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A Tokyo plane crashed while taking off from Ninoy Aquino International Airport in the Philippines capital of Manila on Sunday 29th March 2020. 

President Muhammadu Buhari has declared curfew in Nigeria's economic capital, Its neighbouring state and the Federal Capital Territories for two weeks to curb the spread of COVID-19 and to also make the contact tracing exercise easier and effective. 

Contrary to the earlier controversy that weather to use a mask or not does not matter, but now scientist have made a U-turn, saying the use of face mask will go a long way in slowing down the processes of contracting the coronavirus, therefore advised to use it when available.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said it has extended its molecular laboratories equipped with the capacity to detect the pandemic coronavirus (COVID-19) to six other states.

The Members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) including the 43 Ministers in President Muhammadu Buhari's cabinet have agreed to take a pay-cut with a view to supporting the administration's effort against the Coronavirus pandemic.

10-minute pocket-sized coronavirus diagnostic test kit that costs less than $1 to produce is heading into a testing stage and if successful, could go into full-scale production and would probably be available to the public as early as June.