Buhari Extends Lockdown In Lagos, Ogun, Abuja Over COVID-19

President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the coronavirus (COVID-19)  in Lagos, Ogun and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja for another 14 days.

NewsOne Nigeria reports that President Buhari made this known in a live broadcast to the nation on Monday evening, April 13.

This burgeoning online news platform understands that the President had ordered the restriction of movements in the affected states which are the hardest hit by the coronavirus in the country, for two weeks. The two weeks elapses today, Monday, April 13, 2020.

However, extending the Lagos lockdown, Abuja lockdown and Ogun lockdown during a broadcast today, the President said: “With this in mind and having carefully considered the briefings and Report from the Presidential Task Force and the various options offered, it has become necessary to extend the current restriction of movement in Lagos and Ogun States as well as the FCT for another fourteen days effective from 11:59 pm on Monday, 13th of April, 2020. I am therefore once again asking you all to work with government in this fight.

“This is not a joke. It is a matter of life and death. Mosques in Makkah and Madina have been closed. The Pope celebrated Mass on an empty St. Peter’s Square. The famous Notre Dame cathedral in Paris held Easter Mass with less than 10 people. India, Italy and France are in complete lockdown. Other countries are in the process of following suit. We can not be lax.

“The previously issued guidelines on exempted services shall remain, ” he added.