President Muhammadu Buhari  has announced the extension of the lockdown declared on Lagos and Ogun states, as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) by another two weeks.
This comes as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control records a total of 20 new cases of COVID-19 in the country.
According to the NCDC, 13 of the cases were recorded in Lagos State, two each in Edo, Kano and Ogun states and one in Ondo State, bringing the total number to 343.
Former First Lady PATIENCE JONATHAN has struck a deal to release her 200-bed hotel as COVID-19 Isolation and treatment centre.
The Abuja hotel, which is believed to be worth about N2 billion, is under interim forfeiture secured by the EFCC in 2018 will be handed over today.
The former First Lady, it was learnt, struck the deal with wife of the President, AISHA BUHARI through her pet project, the Future Assured Programme.
The Minister of Health, Dr. OSAGIE EHANIRE has been directed to equip the Hotel as a treatment centre to international standards.
The federal government has been challenged to step up its testing capacity in order to successfully battle the spread of COVID-19.
Some medical professionals including the Nigerian Medical Association, the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria and the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, made this call in a statement.
They said it was not enough for the federal and state governments to impose lockdown on citizens without ensuring that those who had been infected with the virus were fished out and tested.
According to www.worldometers.info, as at last night, Nigeria had tested 5,000 people, while 37,954Â persons were tested in Ghana.
On the other hand, South Africa had tested 80,085 of its citizens.
The World Health Organisation last week said there was an urgent need to increase COVID-19 testing in Africa and advised that it must go beyond cities.
When COVID-19 was first recorded in the country on February 27, Nigeria had five centres, where the virus could be tested but now increased to 10.
Ondo State Governor, ROTIMI AKEREDOLU, has lamented the influx of people from other states despite the ban on inter-state movement.
He alleged that the police were frustrating the effort of the state government at containing the spread of the deadly disease by allowing people to enter the state after receiving bribe from them.
The Governor was reacting through his Special Adviser on Special Duties, DOYIN ODEBOWALE, who visited the state boundaries on Sunday.
Addressing the policemen, ODEBOWALE accused them of corruption by allowing unauthorised vehicles to pass through.
But in a swift reaction, the head of the police team, EBISINE AMY, denied the allegation, saying the policemen at the boundary were doing the work professionally.
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