The federal government has directed that all restaurants, bars, night clubs and event centres nationwide should be closed down.
The decision was taken as part of efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as the nation witnesses its second wave.
The directive was made known on Monday by the Personal Assistant on New Media to President Muhammadu Buhari, Bashir Ahmad, on his Twitter handle.
The tweet reads: “COVID–19: All restaurants, bars, night clubs and event centres nationwide are to be closed, the Federal Government has directed, part of its efforts to curtail the spread of the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic.”
The Boss Mustapha-led Presidential Task Force, PTF, on COVID-19, gave indication last week that the country had entered a second wave of infections.
Mustapha who is also the Secretary to the government of the Federation, SGF, lamented the risk of not just losing the gains from the hard work of the last nine months, but also losing precious lives of citizens in the second wave.
Speaking at the national briefing on Thursday, the PTF chairman, who was represented by the Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, said: “the events and statistics of the last two weeks, within and outside Nigeria, have been very mixed.”
