Reps To Donate Two Months’ Salary For Fight Against COVID-19

    The members of the House of Representatives have resolved to donate their two months’ salary to support the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria.

   Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila who announced this in a statement made available to Channels Television on Tuesday said the donation will be independent of the contributions by individual lawmakers to alleviate the hardship that their constituents face as a result of the pandemic.

China records 48 new coronavirus cases, five deaths

 

    China on Tuesday reported 48 new cases of coronavirus and five more deaths, in the latest figures released by the National Health Commission. According to the commission, all the new cases were imported cases, detected in people who had recently travelled outside the country.

Prince Harry and Meghan Formally Quit Royal Life

 

   Prince Harry and his wife Meghan formally step down as senior members of the British royal family on Tuesday, as they start a controversial new life in the United States.

   The couple have already relocated to California, according to reports, after announcing in January that they intended to quit royal life and “work to become financially independent”.

Central bank suspends cheque clearing

 

  The central bank has temporarily suspended cheque clearing in the Nigerian banking system as President Muhammadu Buhari ordered lockdown takes effect midnight Monday in a bid to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The lockdown was ordered in the commercial capital of Lagos, capital city Abuja and Ogun State.

Buhari signs quarantine regulations on lockdown

 

  President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Covid-19 Regulations 2020 to declare Covid-19 as a  “dangerous infectious disease”. In a statement by his media office, Buhari was said to have signed the regulations “in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Quarantine Act (CAP Q2 LFN 2004), and all other powers enabling him in that behalf”.

   Femi Adesina, his spokesman, said the regulations, effective March 30, 2020, “also gave legal backing to the various measures outlined in the President’s National Broadcast on March 29, 2020, such as Restriction/Cessation of Movement in Lagos, FCT and Ogun State and others toward containing the spread of the pandemic in the country”.