ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE CUMULATIVE LOCKDOWN ORDER OF LAGOS AND OGUN STATES AS WELL AS THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY ON COVID- 19 PANDEMIC AT THE STATE HOUSE, ABUJA, MONDAY, 27th APRIL, 2020 Fellow Nigerians I will start by commending you all for the resilience and patriotism that…
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Monday ordered a nationwide curfew from 8pm to 6am beginning from Monday next week to curb COVID-19 spread. He also ordered two-week total lockdown in Kano State with immediate effect. Buhari had, on March 30, ordered lockdown for an initial period of 14 days in the federal capital Territory,…
…Medical doctor dies in Lagos The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has recorded thirty-four new confirmed cases of Coronavirus disease in the country, which now puts the total in Nigeria at four hundred and seven. The NCDC confirmed on its Twitter handle last night that eighteen of the new cases were recorded in Lagos; twelve in Kano;…
Nigeria recorded 30 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday, APril 14, 2020, which is the highest so far in the country in 24hours. Lagos alone account for 25 of the new cases of the Coronavirus disease, while 2 were reported in Abuja, and in each of Akwa Ibom, Edo and Kano states. With the latest update as…
· Daily feeding for 100,000 · Cash transfers for 250,000 · Additional 9 Covid-19 patients discharged · Home search for infected persons begins The Lagos State Government has ordered the release of all vehicles that were impounded by security agencies between March 1 and April 14, 2020. Governor BABAJIDE SANWO-OLU announced the gesture among several acts of assistance for Lagos residents…
A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has granted bail to 2 Carveton Helicopters pilots and ten passengers of the shuttle service company who were arrested for violating an Executive Order issued by Governor NYESOM WIKE on regulations to check the spread of coronavirus in the state. The pilots are SAMUEL UGORJI and SAMUEL…