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Lagos Residents Hit The Streets To Protest As Hunger Strikes Hard Amid Lockdown
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Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu of Lagos state on Tuesday, March 24, issued a
sit-at-home order across the state to enable the government tackle
further spread of coronavirus. A week later, President Muhammadu Buhari
in a nationwide broadcast, ordered a lockdown across Lagos, Abuja and
Ogun states as part of measures to curb the disease. However, since the
lockdown order by Buhari took effect on Monday, 30th March by 11pm,
there have been many criticisms and outcries as citizens lambasted
government for not providing palliatives to enable people cope during
the shutdown.
With over a week into lockdown for residents of
Lagos state, some Lagosians have taken to the streets to lament and even
challenge members of the state’s task force. In a video which has gone
viral on social media, the residents stated that hunger and epileptic
power supply makes it difficult for them to stay at home.
Four days after the explosion which occurred in Ondo State, the driver of the truck that conveyed the explosives, Mr Isiaka Yinusa, said he did not know that his vehicle carried explosive devices. The explosion occurred on Akure-Owo Expressway, at Ilu Abo town in the Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State in the early hour of Saturday, injuring several people and destroying no fewer than 70 buildings in the community. Yinusa, together with some other people were injured in the accident and were rushed to the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Akure, the state capital, where he had since been receiving treatment. Speaking on his hospital bed, the victim said he was hired to take a consignment to Auchi, Edo State, after the vehicle that was bringing the consignment from Ibadan became faulty in Osu, Osun State. He said he was oblivious of the contents of the consignment. He further stated that the consignment was being escorted by some policemen. Acco...
The German Mission in Nigeria has pledged €5.5m to the Nigeria Humanitarian Fund, says the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Nigeria, The PUNCH reports. The donation, according to an online currency converter, Oanda, as of 2pm on Thursday, exchanged for N2.2bn. This is coming as the West-African country grapples with the attendant effects of economic shocks as a result of the coronavirus pandemic which has paralysed most activities in the country while infecting over 170 people with two deaths. The PUNCH reports that the Federal Government’s 14-day lockdown is on in top cities including Abuja and Lagos as part of efforts to curb the community transmission of the pandemic. There have been cries by the populace for the government to cushion the effect of the lockdown by providing relief materials including foodstuffs and other essentials. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Nigeria announcing on its Twitter handle, @OCHANigeria, sa...
ABUJA—VICE President Yemi Osinbajo and governors who are members of the National Economic Council, NEC, yesterday met to discuss on more palliatives to cushion the effect of Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. The Special NEC committee, which was held via videoconference anchored from the Presidential Villa, urged members to increase public enlightment because of the ravaging COVID-19. The Committee received the report of its Technical Working Group, which proposed an array of policy options and recommendations on how federal, state and local governments could bring relief to the people and take other adequate measures in containing and responding to the adverse economic effects of the pandemic. A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, office of the Vice President, Laolu Akande, stated that the Special Committee of the National Economic Council on COVID-19 was working hard to develop additional measures to alleviate the challenges ...
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