Sanwo-Olu Tells Lagos Civil Servants Not To Resume Monday

The five-week lockdown imposed by the Federal Government on Lagos State and two other states to combat Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) will be eased on Monday (tomorrow), but Lagos State Government has asked all its civil servants not to resume for work immediately.

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, in a briefing on Sunday at the State House in Marina, said the delayed resumption of the State’s workforce is a deliberate attempt to prevent a development that may lead to a crowding of people on the roads and public places.



Only emergency workers and those on essential duties will be allowed to work on Monday, the Governor said.

Sanwo-Olu said the State’s civil service offices would be re-opened for business on Tuesday, but only officers from Grade Level 15 and above would be required to be in the office. If any junior-ranked officer must be at work, the Governor said the Accounting Officer of the Ministry must give clearance to the officer.

Sanwo-Olu said: “In amending the work guidelines earlier issued, which stopped members of the public service from Grade Level 1 to 12 from going to work; we have had to review this position and we are extending the directive to all civil servants, regardless of level. All civil servants must stay away from work on Monday.

“On Tuesday, only officers from Grade Level 15 and above have express permission to come to work. All other essential officers that may need to be at work will be informed by the Accounting Officer of each Ministry as may be required.

“From Monday on, there will be curfew from 8pm to 6am and all movement within these hours are prohibited, except for people on essential services, which are agro-products, petroleum products, relief materials and food supplies.

“We want to use this as a demonstration of our commitment to gradual easing of the lockdown. We do not want people to rush out tomorrow and see the easing of the lockdown as an attempt to believe that the spread of the pandemic is all over.”

Coronavirus Is Cause Of Mysterious Deaths In Kano - Dr Nasiru opens up

Leader of Kano Presidential Task Force Committee on Covid-19, Dr Nasiru Sani Gwarzo has on Sunday said coronavirus pandemic is responsible and the cause of the waves of mysterious deaths recorded in the Kano State.

Gwarzo said the recent deaths and from the test, it carried out it has been established that covid-19 is the cause.



He disclosed this while speaking with newsmen in the state on Sunday after the ceremony of donation of mobile testing laboratory facilities by Alhaji Aliko Dangote to the Kano State Government.

According to Gwarzo, “Let me inform us that, most of the deaths recorded of recent and test carried out showed that coronavirus is the cause. So before the final reports which would be ready in the next one week or few days, it is necessary for people of Kano to wake up from their slumber that this is a serious issue.

“It is not a new thing, countries like America, China, Italy, Spain, England, France and others experienced similar mysterious deaths,” Gwarzo stated.

Recall that Dr. Nasiru got a matching order from the technical team of the Presidential Task Force to unravel the cause of mysterious deaths in Kano and also to contain the spread of the virus in the state.

Woman Slaps A Policeman Trying To Enforce Curfew In Oyo (Photos)

A clip making rounds on social media captured the moment a lady assaulted a police officer.

According to reports, the police officer, dressed in mufti, was trying to enforce the Coronavirus-induced curfew in the Eruwa area of Oyo State.



However, things took an ugly turn as a verbal altercation between the police officer and a lady ensued and then, out of nowhere, the lady landed hot slaps on the police officer.

170 New Cases Of Coronavirus Confirmed In Nigeria, Now A Total Of 2558

In the last 24 hours, 170 new cases of COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria; 39-Lagos, 29-Kano, 24-Ogun, 18-Bauchi, 15-Kaduna, 12-FCT, 12-Sokoto, 8-Katsina, 7-Borno, 3-Nasarawa, 2-Adamawa, 1-Oyo.

2558 confirmed cases of COVID19 in Nigeria. The breakdown;

Four women ‘dragged screaming mother into home and killed her after argument’

Four women have been charged in connection with the disappearance and death of a mother whose body was found days after she vanished.

Nadine Chaves, Mercedes Gomez, Christina Gomez and Melissa Servin were all arrested in Mesa, Arizona on Friday. They are each facing federal kidnapping charges related to the murder of 34-year-old Melissa Valenzuela, a mother-of-three found dead on March 23.

Valenzuela was last seen with Mercedes and Christina Gomez on March 17, according to court documents. Investigators said Servin and Chavez were also seen arguing with a woman matching Valenzuela’s description on the night she was last seen.

One witness told police that they saw the four women dragging the woman believed to be Valenzuela into Chavez’s home as she screamed in terror and begged for someone to call 911, according to 12 News.

The witness told authorities that she never saw the screaming woman again, but they said they saw Chavez, Mercedes Gomez and Christina Gomez cleaning up the front of the home the next morning.

Chavez’s brother was later interviewed by police and he said he went to her home on the night of March 17 and saw blood in the bathroom and missing floor tiles.

According to court documents, investigators believe Mercedes and Christina Gomez left with the body while the other two women cleaned up the alleged murder scene.

Chavez’s brother said his sister showed him a picture of Valenzuela from a news article and inferred she was the woman killed in her house.

One day after the alleged murder, Mercedez Gomez gave Chavez’s brother a debit card belonging to Valenzuela, police said.

Authorities conducted a search of Chavez’s home on March 24 and found blood in the bathroom, although they are still awaiting forensic results.

All four women have been charged with federal kidnapping, although investigators are still trying to determine their individual roles in the alleged killing.

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2020/05/four-women-dragged-screaming-mother.html

British man who fled to UK from Wuhan now wishes he never left China

A man who fled to the UK from Wuhan in January has said he wishes he never left China.

Matt Raw, 38, shouted ‘we’re free’ after spending two weeks in quarantine at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral on February 13, but he now says he went ‘out of the pot, into the fire’.

‘We should never have left China,’ he said. ‘We made the decision to come back over here because there was a killer virus running loose around Wuhan.

‘At the time coronavirus was not in England – I think the first case was while we were in quarantine in Arrowe Park, and I thought ‘They have seen what happened in China, they will jump on this straight away’.

‘They did nothing,’ he added.

Mr Raw, who arrived back in Britain on January 31 with his wife, Ying, 38, and his 75-year-old mother, Hazel, who has dementia, said that for friends and family in Wuhan things are starting to get back to normal.

He said: ‘They’re out of lockdown, it looks like they’ve got control of the situation.

‘Ying’s brother has his own business and, as far as I understand, they are all back at work now, but they’re still being sensible, taking precautions and not going out unnecessarily.’
Mr Raw abandoned his Jeep at Wuhan airport before boarding the repatriation flight, but said his brother-in-law had now been able to collect the vehicle.

He said he believed China had done ‘everything right’ and acted more quickly and with greater force than the UK to restrict the spread of the virus.

Now, he is not planning to return to the country until there is a vaccine for Covid-19, making it safe for his mother to travel.

He said his wife had applied for a visa to stay in the UK but delays with the process mean they are not sure if she will need to return to China next month.

Mr Raw said he has been filming YouTube videos, playing the piano and spending time in the garden of his home in Knutsford, Cheshire, to occupy himself during lockdown.

He also praised his neighbours, who, he said, have been supporting each other.

‘That’s really what makes it all very, very bearable indeed,’ he said.

‘We know what we’ve got to do now, we need to stay inside and it’s not going to be forever.

‘I would rather be in quarantine over here than in China, but I think, very definitely, that coming back here was a mistake.

‘We’ve made our bed so we just have to put on a happy face and lie in it now.’

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2020/05/british-man-who-fled-to-uk-from-wuhan.html

Don’t resume on Monday, Sanwo-Olu orders civil servants

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has ordered all civil servants in the state to stay away from work on Monday, May 4.

The Punch reports that the five-week-old total lockdown imposed on the nation’s economic capital terminates on Sunday night, May 3, and the new phase of gradual easing starts on Monday, as ordered by the President Muhammadu Buhari.

But the governor in a statement on Sunday evening asked all its civil servants not to resume work immediately, noting that the delayed resumption is a deliberate attempt to prevent overcrowding in the state.

He, however, added that emergency workers and those on essential duties would be allowed to work on Monday.

Sanwo-Olu said, “In amending the work guidelines earlier issued, which stopped members of the public service from Grade Level 1 to 12 from going to work; we have had to review this position and we are extending the directive to all civil servants, regardless of level. All civil servants must stay away from work on Monday.

“On Tuesday, only officers from Grade Level 15 and above have express permission to come to work. All other essential officers that may need to be at work will be informed by the Accounting Officer of each Ministry as may be required.

“From Monday on, there will be a curfew from 8 pm to 6 am and all movements within these hours are prohibited, except for people on essential services, which are agro-products, petroleum products, relief materials, and food supplies.

“We want to use this as a demonstration of our commitment to the gradual easing of the lockdown. We do not want people to rush out tomorrow and see the easing of the lockdown as an attempt to believe that the spread of the pandemic is all over.”

According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Saturday night, of the total 2388 coronavirus infections reported in the country, 1068 cases were recorded in Lagos with about 30 attendant fatalities and 247 recoveries, the highest by any state in Nigeria.

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2020/05/dont-resume-on-monday-sanwo-olu-orders.html

UNIPORT disclaims 2 of the murdered victims of abductors

The authorities of University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT, said two of the murdered victims of abductors in Rivers were not their students.

A spokesman for the university, Dr. Williams Wodi identified the only female victim, Joy Favour Adoki, as a student.

She was a 400 level Management Science Student and lived off campus in Alakahia community in Obi-Akpor LGA, he said.

Disclaimed by the university were Nelson Nwafor and Fortune Obemba.

The bodies of the three victims of abduction were exhumed by the police on 1 May, at Eteo forest in Eleme Local Government Area.

Wodi said the university has no records of Nwafor and Obemba.

“Only the girl (Joy Favour Adoki) is a student of UNIPORT. The other two are not.

The girl is of faculty of Management Science. She resides off-campus at Alakahia,” Wodi said.

Wodi added that Adoki was expected to have been with her parents after the closure of the university.

UNIPORT, like other Federal-owned universities were shut on 20 March over COVID-19 pandemic.

Adoki and the other victims were kidnapped on 7 April.

Friday Akpan, one of the leaders of the kidnapping gang took operatives of the anti-kidnapping unit of Rivers State Police Command to Eteo Forest on 1 May.

There, the three bodies were retrieved and taken to the morgue.

They were all initially recognised as UNIPORT students.

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2020/05/uniport-disclaims-2-of-murdered-victims.html

2,310 violators of COVID-19 lockdown order arrested in Lagos

A total of 2,310 violators of the presidential directives on lockdown and social distancing to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), have so far been arrested in five weeks, in Lagos State. Out of the number, 125 were minors.

Some of the suspects were arrested in clubs, parties and during group exercises.

Two thousand, one hundred and eighty-five of the suspects were charged to court and awarded various degrees of punishments ranging from two hours to six months community services and fines between #5,000.00 and #100,000.00.

Others were asked to write undertakings to be of good conducts and apology letters, while the 125 minors were warned and released.

Also, 2,092 vehicles were impounded. Out of the figure, 800 were private vehicles while 1,292 were commercial vehicles. In addition, 1,535 motorcycles and 369 tricycles were also impounded.

Spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, DSP Elkana Bala, who made the disclosure, explained that the arrests were effected by Tactical units deployed to reinforce the conventional patrol teams manning 14 identified boundaries with neighbouring states.

Speaking on behalf of the Command boss, CP Hakeem Odumosu, he appreciated Lagosians and policemen for their support and professionalism at combating the spread of the Codvid -19 pandemic.

But he was quick to remind that the battle against the dreaded virus was not over yet, and therefore, advised residents to adhere strictly to the guidelines issued by the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 and Lagos State Government to stop the spread of the virus.

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2020/05/2310-violators-of-covid-19-lockdown.html

Coivd-19: Ebonyi fifth patient got virus at isolation centre, says Umahi

Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi has confirmed two fresh cases of COVID-19 in the state.

The governor announced this in a phone call to the situation room for an update on Coronavirus situation on the state’s broadcast stations.

He said the fourth case returned from Lagos with the virus while the fifth case got the virus from the third case at Pa Oruta Ngele Stadium in Abakaliki holding area.

“The fourth case is a 26-year-old man who lives in Ojo, Lagos. He left Lagos on April 26 and entered Ebonyi through Nkalagu boundary. From there, he took a bus to Ezzamgbo junction. Thereafter, he entered a bus to Ede Ishieke in Ebonyi Local Government Area,” Umahi said.

The governor said the fourth case was intercepted at Ishieke by Anti-COVID-19 Task Force and brought to the stadium where the sample collected from him returned positive.

Umahi said the fifth case returned from Uburu with her family from Énugu where she resides but was brought to the holding area in Abakaliki in line with the state government’s directive that anyone from outside the state must be tested.

“The fifth case is a 24-year-old woman, a hair dresser from Awgu in Uburu in Ohaozara Local Government Area. She resides at Number 30 Queens Close, ?kpara Avenue in Enugu.

“She was picked from Uburu to Stadium. While at the stadium, she had contact with the third case and this evening (Saturday), her result came out and she tested positive.”

Umahi added that the family members that she came back with all tested negative.

The governor said they would be kept at the holding area and monitored for 14 days.

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2020/05/coivd-19-ebonyi-fifth-patient-got-virus.html

Just In: Jarman Kano, Prof Isa Hashim is dead

A senior Counsellor in Kano Emirate Council, Prof. Isa Hashim is dead

Prof. Isa Hashim who was until his death the Jarman Kano died on Sunday morning after a brief.

A family source, Ibrahim Aliyu told reporters that the 86-year old traditional title holder died as his health deteriorated, following the deaths of some of his childhood friends in quick succession.

Isa Hashim, a Professor of Political Science was a senior lecturer with Bayero University Kano (BUK) where he taught for many years before his retirement.

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2020/05/just-in-jarman-kano-prof-isa-hashim-is.html

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Angry lady warns Nigerians from distributing relief items to Ikorudu residents [video]

A twitter user @bimbo_cash has warned others from distributing relief items to Ikorodu residents saying they are thieves and not hungry.

According to Bimbo, she had gone there to distribute items to the needy in this pandemic, but she was attacked and almost got robbed. The driver with her wasn't so lucky, he lost his new phone and everything they went with where stolen without distribution.

Explaining her ordeal on twitter, Bimbo calls it simply robbery and far from being hungry.

“Whatever help, support , relief and or charitable giving you are doing, Don’t visit Ikorodu. They are terrible people. They are broad day light looters. 150 cartons of Noodles , 150 crates of eggs, 150 satchets of Semolina looted. This is not hunger, This is stealing �” Continue...


She even tried stealing my hand bag. Volunteers bags gone , Driver’s new phone also gone . This is greed, this is robbery , this is not hunger. They are Thieves.

See The Video below:

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2020/05/angry-lady-warns-nigerians-from.html

Video: Nigerian lady trafficked to Oman whose boss will not allow her to go cries out

A young Nigerian lady, identified as Adetomisin Adetula, has cried out for urgent help to return to Nigeria after being trafficked to Oman.

In a viral video, Adetomisin who spoke in Yoruba, said she contacted an agent who promised to secure a job for her in the US. But things turned sour when she found herself in Oman.

“Good evening Nigerians. My name is Adetomisin. I am a Nigerian from Ondo state. I am currently speaking to you from Oman.

“When I was leaving Nigeria, the agreement I had with my agent was that I was going to the US to work. When I finished my NCE programme and was unemployed for a long time, I decided to travel out.

“My agent told me that he will help me secure a job in the US. All of a sudden, everything changed. I did not know what happened. That was how they brought us to Oman. Myself and one other lady. When we got to the airport in Oman, two people came to pick us up. They took us to an office and stripped us of all we had including our passports and phones.

“They took us to where we were supposed to start work. When I got to my place of work, my boss started to threaten and frustrate my life. In the first four months I worked with him, he did not pay me any salary. When I called my agent to inform him, he said it was none of his business as he has played his part. Since then, he stopped taking my calls.

“Seeing how things were turning out, my boss kept threatening me to have sex with him but I declined. With all the stress of the job, I wake up as early as 4 am and work all day until about 12 am or 1 am before sleeping. My boss threatened that if I don’t give in to his request, he would kill me. That was when I said I didn’t want to work anymore and that they should take me back to my country having worked four months without getting any salary.

“That was how they took me back to the office and started scolding me. They took me into a room and locked me in with some others. For one week, we were not given food or water. Most of us were drinking water from the toilet for almost one week before they came to take us to work.

“I have been working there for one year and two months and I have been sick. I told my boss that I want to return to Nigeria, but he said I can’t return.

“Nigerians, please, help me. I want to return home. I’m sick and my boss said I cannot come back. Nigerians please help me. I don’t want to die in Oman.” she said.



source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2020/05/video-nigerian-lady-trafficked-to-oman.html

Abductor narrates how they gang-r.a.p.e.d female UNIPORT student, killed two others

“We were five in number and we slept with the girl before we killed her last. We killed the boy first, killed the second and the girl last. We used gun brought by Bright”.

With this statement, one of the suspected abductors of three undergraduates of University of Port Harcourt, Friday Akpan (aka Trouble), narrated how he and his four other colleagues killed their victims.

The suspected abductors are in the custody of Rivers State Police Command after they were arrested last week.

Operatives last week exhumed the remains of the victims from shallow graves where they had been buried after being killed by their abductors.

We gang-r.a.p.e.d the girl

One of the arrested suspects, Akpan, disclosed that the five-man gang r.a.p.e.d the female victim before killing her.

Akpan narrated: “I am a trailer conductor. It is Bright that called us that somebody he worked with refused to pay him when the woman they worked for paid the money. He said the person took the money to buy a car. “He called the boy and the boy said he was coming. When he came to Bright’s house, we picked them. Bright took over the car and drove us to this sand forest.

“Bright said we should kill the boy otherwise he will expose us. Bright said his bags were in the boy’s house. We were five in number and we slept with the girl before we killed her last. We killed the first boy, killed the second and the girl, last. We used a gun brought by Bright.”

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2020/05/uniport-killings-how-we-gang-raped.html

COVID-19: Outrage as bill okays demolition of buildings where infections occur

Criticisms have greeted the Infectious Diseases Bill in the works at the House of Representatives to give teeth to Federal Government’s efforts to manage the special circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, which as of Friday night had claimed 68 lives in Nigeria.

Sponsored by Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila when the House convened last Tuesday, April 28, 2020, the bill would create a new legal framework to replace the National Quarantine Act of 2004.

A peep into the bill, if it becomes law, shows the Health Minister will have the right to convert any building into an isolation area, while the police would be able to arrest any individual suffering from an infectious disease, even without a warrant. Also, with a court order, government would be able to destroy any building where an infectious disease – including cholera, typhoid and dengue fever – has occurred.


Section 79 (3) of the bill prescribes a N500,000 fine and six-month jail term for persons who violate the quarantine restriction or refuse to take vaccinations in case of an outbreak or a suspected outbreak of an infectious disease in the country.

Firing the first salvo, opposition Peoples Democratic Party Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) urged the the Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila to subject the Infectious Disease Control Bill to public hearing, because failure to do so raises suspicions of sinister objectives.

The party, which gave the advice in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan yesterday in Abuja, said the bill should not be passed without recourse to the laid down procedure of public hearing to allow Nigerians participate in the process of making the law.

In his reaction, Clement Nwankwo, Director of Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre, said,”A new law is needed, but the powers are too sweeping. There’s a lot of powers in the bill, which could be used for political purposes.”

According to David Hundeyin, writing on NewsWireNGR, the bill is not so much about helping to save Nigerian lives from disease outbreaks, it is one about helping the Director General of the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the Minister of Health become disproportionately and unjustifiably powerful.

Hundeyin maintained, “It will be too early to call for the death of the bill even though it is terribly defective with several punitive measures that give the DG the powers to act like a colonial czar. “However, I will like to appeal to Nigerians to let us critically review and appraise this draft law and see whether it could be exorcised of its illegal powers and provisions. The bill bears the signature of a draft that originated from a communist republic,” he said.

The bill has also generated a Twitter storm. In hash-tag #StoptheNCDCBill, Sylvester Ebhodaghe

@Sylvester2006 said it is sad that @SpeakerGbaja will sponsor the Control of Infectious Diseases Bill 2020, which has passed second reading in less than two (2) hours. Is there an agenda by the @NGRPresident and the @NCDCgov? The sweeping powers of the DG will shock you. #StoptheNCDCBill.

Jide Akintunde @JSAkintunde, in what he titled “Femi Gbajabiamila is Coming for Your Property” tweeted: “It is in the absence of a clear national economic ideology that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, @femigbaja, and his friends in the House, would come up with a bill that proposes seizure of private properties for quarantines in Nigerian putative capitalist system. There are two other reasons. Nigeria’s copy-and-paste COVID-19 responses have now culminated in a member bill that is up to 70% plagiarised.”

Akintunde maintained that going by the number of infectious diseases listed in the Control of Infectious Disease Bill 2020, nationalisation of properties could be expected to be a regular occurrence in Nigeria. This bill will deter investments in Nigeria, if passed into law. The bill should RIP.

However, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director General of the NCDC, said he was not involved in drafting the legislation and it requires further consultation. “I’m personally not in favour of drafting a bill in the middle of a crisis,” Ihekweazu said.

source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2020/05/covid-19-outrage-as-bill-allows.html

Kidnapped Oyo Islamic cleric’s twins regain freedom

Twins of popular Oyo Islamic cleric, Alhaji Taofeek Akewugbagold have been released almost 8 days after they were abducted.

This is coming after the abductors demanded for £100,000 which is equivalent to N55 million for the release of the children.

The twins, a boy and a girl who are children of Sheikh Taofeeq A, kewugbagold were kidnapped by gunmen in Ibadan, the state capital of Oyo state about a week ago.

The twins were released to their father beside a bush this morning around 5:30am.


He revealed the release of the twins via his Facebook account.

It was not clear how much he paid as ransom.

Alhaji Akewugbagold thanked everyone for the support and prayers and also appreciated God for returning his beloved kids.

He wrote; “ALHAMDULILLAH! AT 5.30AM OF SUNDAY 3RD MAY MY ABDUCTED TWIN KIDS ARE RELEASED TO ME BESIDE A BUSH AFTER 8DAYS IN AN UNKNOWN LAND. THANKS TO U ALL FOR FOR YOUR PRAYERS AND SUPPORT, JAZAKUMULLAHU KHAIRAN. ABERE MI BO SINU OKUN, OLOUN YO PADA FUN MI.”



source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2020/05/kidnapped-oyo-islamic-clerics-twins.html

Lagos Releases New Guidelines For Market To Open Monday

It's confirmed. Markets will open from tomorrow, Monday morning across Lagos. Amid efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19, the state Government has issued new guidelines for the reopening of markets and shopping malls across the state.

Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs, Dr Wale Ahmed, said that all markets and stores across the State would be allowed to open from 9am till 3pm on selected days.



In a statement he issued yesterday in Lagos, the Commissioner said the guidelines were necessary.

He said that issuance of the guidelines followed Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s announcement on the gradual easing of the lockdown in Lagos from Monday.

He said that everyone going to the markets and stores would be mandated to observe precautionary measures, such as physical distancing and high level of personal and respiratory hygiene.

Ahmed said that malls would also be allowed to open with the proviso that they would maintain a 60 per cent occupancy capacity at any point in time.

He added that there should be a two-metre physical distancing between a shopper and the next person in the store.

The commissioner said that food handlers must wear masks and hand gloves in markets at all times.

According to him, shop owners must provide hand sanitisers and ensure hand washing with soap and running water at all entry points.

He said that they should also conduct temperature checks on customers and ensure that nobody would be exempted from the process.

"The guidelines are proactive measures put in place by the government to curtail a possible spread of the deadly virus among traders in markets places and malls when the gradual ease of the lockdown commences on Monday,” he said.

Ahmed said that food sellers and other traders would operate on alternate days in all markets across the state.

"In essence, those trading in other items and wares apart from food will only be allowed to trade on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, while all food and farm produce sellers will operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,” the commissioner said.

He said that there would be zero tolerance for all forms of street-trading, urging market association leaders to ensure that their members would abide by the guidelines.

Ahmed also called on the chairmen of local councils and the Office of Iyaloja-General and the State enforcement agencies to ensure strict compliance with the directives.

4 Persons Die Of Coronavirus In Lagos, 22 Recover & Return Home

Getting help on time is the best way to survive the novel Coronavirus. Lagos State gas recorded four more deaths in the last 24 hours.

Confirming the sad development, the state ministry of health tweeted;
'Unfortunately, 4 #COVID19 deaths were recorded. This brings total number of #COVID19 related deaths in Lagos to 25.'

Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu also confirmed the discharge of 22 more patients from the Isolation centres.

He said, "8 females and 14 males were discharged from our Isolation facilities to reunite with the society... Total discharged now 247."

Dangote Donates Lab Capable Of 400 Tests A Day To Kano

Aliko Dangote has donated a mobile laboratory able to handle 400 samples daily to augment the testing capacity in Kano state.

Governor Abdullahi Ganduje revealed this on Saturday during a press briefing organised by the state taskforce on covid-19 which took place at the Africa House in Kano.

The test centre, with daily capacity of taking 400 samples, is expected to arrive Kano Monday.

According to Ganduje, “As we are targeting more Testing Centres in the state, the richest man in Africa, Alhaji Aliko Dangote is donating Mobile Testing Centre with the capacity of testing 400 people daily. The facility is coming to Kano in the next two days, by Monday.”

He lamented about the rising cases of positive COVID-19 patients in the state, describing it as “a thing of great concern.”

He said, “Though we are aware that the bouncing back of the Aminu Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital Testing Centre with the capacity of 88 samples per day, and the coming up of another Testing Centre at Bayero University, Kano, with the capacity of 20 samples per day, would mean another rise in the identified positive cases.”