Day: December 18, 2020

Lagos slams fresh restrictions on Churches, Mosques

Wonuola Olujobi

  Sanwoolu embargoes Christmas Carol, Street Carnival, issues work-from-home order to workers     Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, has slammed a fresh restriction on religious centres in the state as reported cases of COVID-19 continue to rise. Governor of Lagos, Babajide Sanwoolu, who announced this restriction from an isolation centre where he has also been quarantinedfor COVID-19, odered an indefinite closure of public and private schools and that religious houses limit their congregations to 50 percent capacity of the venue. Sanwo-Olu also directed public servants from Grade Level 14 and…

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It’s Official: Restrictions likely as COVID-19 second wave rocks Nigeria

ADEOLA YUSUF

  . Buhari to receive Task Force End of Term report, recommendations on infections Dec. 22       The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, says there were indications that the country had entered a second wave of infections. Chairman of the PTF and Secretary to the government of the Federation (SGF) Mr Boss Mustapha, who gave the indication, lamented the risk of not just losing the gains from the hard work of the last nine months, but also losing precious lives of citizens. The PTF’s concerns were being…

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