BREAKING: Nigeria's Economy Can't Take Another Lockdown - Buhari tweets
Thompson Nsisongabasi
Oct 29, 2020
President Muhammadu Buhari has warned that Nigeria's economy is too fragile for fresh coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown.
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AFNews reports that the president stated this in a post on his Twitter handle @MBuhari on Thursday.
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Buhari stated that compliance with COVID-19 protocols by all Nigerians is crucial to avert a second wave of the pandemic in the country.
"Looking at the trends in other countries, we must do all we can to avert a second wave of COVID-19 in Nigeria.
"We must make sure that our cases, which have gone down, do not rise again. Our economy is too fragile to bear another round of lockdown," Buhari wrote.
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Recall that President Buhari had in March imposed a total lockdown which lasted over five weeks on parts of the country including Lagos, Abuja and Ogun to curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
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