{"id":24810,"date":"2020-05-07T12:24:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T12:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=24810"},"modified":"2020-05-07T12:24:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T12:24:06","slug":"pressure-mounts-on-buhari-to-lockdown-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pressure-mounts-on-buhari-to-lockdown-nigeria","title":{"rendered":"Pressure mounts on Buhari to lockdown Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Youth Task Force on COVID-19 has again advised President Muhammadu Buhari\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2020\/05\/06\/buhari-asked-to-lockdown-abuja-again\/\">to lockdown Nigeria<\/a>\u00a0due to rising cases on coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Itsey Sagay, Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), in his suggestion, said Nigeria should be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2020\/05\/06\/lockdown-nigeria-for-two-months-sagay-tells-buhari\/\">locked for two months.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officials of the Buhari administration have also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2020\/05\/06\/covid-19-nigerians-risk-fresh-lockdown-as-buhari-govt-officials-decry-violations\/\">decried the level of compliance<\/a>\u00a0by citizens since the lockdown ease.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Progressive Students Movement (PSM) joined calls to the federal government to impose a fresh \u2018stay at home\u2019 order.<\/p>\n<p>PSM President, Bestman Okereafor, spoke in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).<\/p>\n<p>Okereafor expressed concern about facilities, equipment and health workers preparedness in states.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-28\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Federal Government, as a matter of urgency, should declare a state of emergency in states with high level of confirmed COVID-19 cases basically to reduce the spread of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state of emergency should come on these states through strict enforcement of lockdown for at least two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis move had become imperative following the increase in inter-state movement especially at night hours notwithstanding the present night curfew imposed by the Federal Government meant to ensure containment of the pandemic,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-29\"><\/div>\n<p>The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says the country has recorded confirmed cases to 3,145; death toll has passed 100.<\/p>\n<div id=\"jp-relatedposts\" class=\"jp-relatedposts\">\n<div class=\"jp-relatedposts-items jp-relatedposts-items-minimal jp-relatedposts-list \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Youth Task Force on COVID-19 has again advised President Muhammadu Buhari\u00a0to lockdown Nigeria\u00a0due to rising cases on coronavirus. Itsey Sagay, Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), in his suggestion, said Nigeria should be\u00a0locked for two months. Officials of the Buhari administration have also\u00a0decried the level of compliance\u00a0by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":13226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[97,1451],"class_list":["post-24810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-covid-19"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pressure mounts on Buhari to lockdown Nigeria - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Youth Task Force on COVID-19 has again advised President Muhammadu Buhari\u00a0to lockdown Nigeria\u00a0due to rising cases on\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pressure-mounts-on-buhari-to-lockdown-nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pressure mounts on Buhari to lockdown Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Youth Task Force on COVID-19 has again advised President Muhammadu Buhari\u00a0to lockdown Nigeria\u00a0due to rising cases on\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pressure-mounts-on-buhari-to-lockdown-nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-07T12:24:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/07\/Muhammadu-Buhari-1-5d3867344a0ba.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pressure-mounts-on-buhari-to-lockdown-nigeria#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pressure-mounts-on-buhari-to-lockdown-nigeria\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Pressure mounts on Buhari to lockdown Nigeria\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-07T12:24:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pressure-mounts-on-buhari-to-lockdown-nigeria\"},\"wordCount\":223,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pressure-mounts-on-buhari-to-lockdown-nigeria#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/07\/Muhammadu-Buhari-1-5d3867344a0ba.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"COVID-19.\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pressure-mounts-on-buhari-to-lockdown-nigeria#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pressure-mounts-on-buhari-to-lockdown-nigeria\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pressure-mounts-on-buhari-to-lockdown-nigeria\",\"name\":\"Pressure mounts on Buhari to lockdown Nigeria - 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