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Gov Diri extends lockdown in Bayelsa for two more weeks
The Bayelsa Governor, Douye Diri, has extended the lockdown in the state for two more weeks.
At an enlarged meeting with members of the state’s COVID-19 Task Force and security agencies at the Government House, Yenagoa on Thursday, Diri asked civil servants to remain at home for an additional two weeks.
At the meeting however, Diri, who is the chairman of the task force, said the lockdown would be relaxed slightly to allow Christians celebrate Easter.
According to a statement by his acting Chief Press Secretary, Mr Daniel Alabrah, the governor added that the state would every two weeks, review the COVID-19 preventive measures pending when things were stabilised.
He announced that aside measures to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19, that the Nigerian Agip Oil Company and its joint venture partners had chosen Bayelsa as the site for the establishment of the COVID-19 health facility for the South-South zone.
He, therefore, asked the state Ministry of Lands to make land available.
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He said he had approved “another N98m for the procurement of foodstuffs as palliatives to Bayelsans.”
He further talked about donations made by some corporate organisations, including the United Bank for Africa (N28.5m), Niger Delta Development Commission (N100m), Sterling Bank (N100m) and the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (300 bags of rice).
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