Another lockdown is not welcome (Vanguard)

Vanguard (Nigeria) published an article writes that the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 led by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, regularly warns of the possibility of another lockdown because of the general carefree attitude of Nigerians to the core protocols required to contain the pandemic. IFPRI reports that the six-week lockdown between April and May this year zapped $16bn loss to our GDP (See IFPRI working paper, (Estimating the economic costs of COVID-19 in Nigeria). The modest efforts being made by the government to steer the economy from imminent recession were thwarted by the three-week #EndSARS protests and subsequent burning and looting of private and public property by hoodlums. Republished in The Citizen (Nigeria).