Nigeria Faced With Unprecedented Economic Challenge – Osinbajo

Vice president Yemi Osinbajo has conceded that the country is currently ladened with economic woes that have never been recorded by any past government in the history of the country.

He made this known at the inaugural meeting of the Economic Sustainability Committee set up by President Muhammdu Buhari on Monday to look into and foster solutions to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic and crashing oil prices.

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He said:

“We must communicate to our people where we are now, and that we can no longer assume we are still where we used to be.

”We are faced with a challenge that no government in the history of Nigeria has ever faced. So, we have to redesign our economic planning and change our thinking.”

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Nigeria is likely to record more cases of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), infections, as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) progressively expands its testing capacity.

Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director-General of NCDC, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) while giving an update on COVID-19 in the country, on Thursday, in Abuja.

Ihekweazu said the COVID-19 is a virus that spreads rapidly from person to person and the NCDC measures must be very stringent.

He said that NCDC scaled up its capacity to conduct tests and produce results more quickly as Nigerians demanded.

He said that the NCDC has also expanded the criteria for who should be tested.

The NCDC DG said that the agency initially recommended that testing everyone with symptoms of fever, coughing, and difficulty in breathing, but only if they had these symptoms as well as a history of traveling to an area where cases were endemic or being in close contact with someone who was diagnosed as positive.

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