Tag: Lockdown
Netflix gains over 15million new subscribers amid lockdown
American streaming platform, Netflix has gained about 15.77 million new users in the first three months of 2020 as millions…
Don Jazzy writes Funke Akindele after lockdown violation
Nigerian record producer and Mavin Boss, Michael Collins Ajereh, better known as Don Jazzy has applauded actress Funke Akindele-Bello for…
Lockdown: Miyetti Allah wants cattle markets to open
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MCBAN, has appealed to Nasarawa State Government to allow partial operation in…
Coronavirus: Women embrace family planning in Niger
Some childbearing age women in Niger are now accessing family planning following the lockdown imposed by the State Government to…
Coronavirus: Zimbabwe extends lockdown
President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe has announced that the lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic will be…
Jubilations as Ghana relaxes lockdown on major cities
Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced a 21-day relaxed after the restrictions bought the government enough time to improve its…
Lockdown: Nigerian doctor recommends indoor exercise
A Singapore-bases Nigerian medical practitioner, Dr. Jonathan Obaje, has recommended regular indoor exercise for people amid the coronavirus lockdown to…
Coronavirus: Kaduna reviews lockdown order
Kaduna State Government is fashioning out a framework to allow businesses that offer essential services to operate within the stay-at-home…
Lockdown: Fish farmers appeal for special movement permit
To curb losses in the fish farming value chain, the Catfish and Allied Fish Farmers Association of Nigeria (CAFFAN) has…
Coronavirus Lockdown: Firm partners Lagos to feed 10,000 people daily
Rendeavour, Africa’s largest private city developer and partner to the Lagos State Government on the Alaro City project, has commenced…
Coronavirus: Uzodinma clears the air on lockdown, curfew
Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State has said that his Executive Order on COVID-19 where he imposed a dusk to…
Lockdown: Okota-Isolo youths keep watch against hoodlums
Some members of Afolabi Sole, Oseni Liadi and Adebogun streets in Okota-Isolo on Friday said that they were determined to…
Extortion: Rivers CP, Garrison Commanders storm borders to warn men
Sequel to numerous Complaints of massive extortion by security agencies at the Rivers State borders, the Commissioner of Police, Mustapha…
Lockdown: CACOL decries reckless killings, abuse of Nigerians
The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, has chided various security outfits for their response and attitude to the…
Looking up in lockdown season
As the Covid-19 pandemic remains unrelenting, a large swathe of the country is under lockdown, some proclaimed by Federal Government,…
Lockdown rebellion in Mararaba Abuja
By Hawa Lawal Residents of Mararaba, an Abuja suburb located in Nasarawa State have defied the stay-at-home and social distancing…
Coronavirus: Ekiti pensioners beg for palliatives
The Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) in Ekiti on Thursday appealed to both the Federal and State Government to give…
Lockdown extension: NAWOJ calls for adequate security measures
As the coronavirus induced lockdown continues for another 14 days, the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, Lagos State Chapter calls…
Lockdown: Ilorin residents decry high cost of consumer items
Some residents of Ilorin have expressed worries over the sudden rise in the cost of consumer items following the lockdown…
Coronavirus: Osun residents rush to banks, markets ahead of lockdown
Residents of Osun on Thursday rushed to banks and major markets ahead of lockdown in the state.
Lockdown: Food, liquor stores looted in South Africa
A number of food and liquor stores have been looted in South Africa amid a strict national lockdown that was…
India to ease lockdown in rural areas
India will permit several activities in rural areas starting next week, including manufacturing and infrastructure building, to provide relief to…
Coronavirus lockdown: Kwara police warn against wandering
The Kwara Police Command has warned residents in all the 16 local government areas of the state to desist from…
Coronavirus in Nigeria: A Look at the Logicality of a Lockdown
There is an alarming increase of cases of broad daylight robberies across Lagos. Everything from money to pots of stew…
Coronavirus: Ogun to begin total lockdown Saturday
Ogun state government has decided a total lockdown the state starting from Saturday 18th of April, 2020 instead of the…
Abiodun amends Buhari’s lockdown order
Gov Dapo Abiodun of Ogun has slightly adjusted President Muhammadu Buhari's lockdown order on his state.
Coronavirus: Bayelsa reinstates total lockdown after Easter celebration
Bayelsa State from midnight Monday reverted to its earlier order on lockdown of the state as part of measures to…
Coronavirus: Lagos residents decry lockdown extension
Some residents of Isolo in Lagos State, on Tuesday, expressed dissatisfaction with the extension of the Federal Government’s lockdown of…
COVID-19 vs hunger virus: Lockdown not sustainable, Mr. President!
It appears that with the extension of the lockdown, Nigerians have been given two options – to die of hunger…
Coronavirus: France extends lockdown
French President Emmanuel Macron has extended the anti-coronavirus lockdown in France until May 11, in a televised speech to the…