Coronavirus: Buhari to announce lifting of lockdown order as Nigerian governors release new timetable

The Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has stated that only President Muhammadu Buhari can decide when presidential lockdown order would be relaxed.

Ehanire spoke during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.

He said efforts were continuing to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The President will make that announcement in his own time. We will give him the facts, he will consider the facts and make his own announcements using his own wisdom,” the minister said.

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