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Nigeria re-introduces Covid-19 lockdowns

Nigeria has reintroduced Covid-19 lockdowns across all of its thirty-six states.

Nigeria has reintroduced Coronavirus restrictions in all its states to contain the spread of coronavirus, protect its fragile health system and give itself time to sort out country’s vaccine distribution programme.

Dozens arrested ahead of Museveni inauguration

And we mark the 40th anniversary of reggae music icon Bob Marley.

(Picture: A police officer pursues fleeing motorcycle taxi riders who refused to stop at mounted barricades to check movement of vehicles and for failing to comply with the sit-at-home order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus on Lagos Ibadan expressway, on April 28, 2020. Credit: Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images)

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