{"id":26047,"date":"2020-04-25T13:01:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T12:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=26047"},"modified":"2020-04-25T13:01:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T12:01:38","slug":"governors-ask-buhari-for-inter-state-lockdown-use-of-face-masks-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=26047","title":{"rendered":"Governors ask Buhari for inter-state lockdown, use of face masks in public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) is reaching out to President Muhammadu Buhari to ban inter-state movements, ensure intra-state ones but with a ban on large gatherings and assemblies. They also insist on a compulsory use of face masks and face coverings in public.<br \/>\nIn a proposal to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, for onward transmission to the President before his next public pronouncement on COVID-19, the NGF head, Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, stressed the need for a co-ordinated and uniformed response to the pandemic.<br \/>\nThe NGF, however, wants the interstate lockdown to exempt vehicles conveying essential goods like foods, beverages, medical and pharmaceutical supplies, petroleum products, and agricultural produce..<br \/>\nThe governors alsi want overnight curfews imposed everywhere, and a lockdown on flights.<br \/>\nBelow is a copy of the memo:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-26048\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG-20200425-WA0006-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) is reaching out to President Muhammadu Buhari to ban inter-state movements, ensure intra-state ones but with a ban on large gatherings and assemblies. They also insist on a compulsory use of face masks and face coverings in public. In a proposal to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5773,7],"tags":[1340,1497,756],"class_list":["post-26047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-news","tag-lockdown","tag-ngf","tag-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}