#Coronavirus: FG says 78% of Nigerians support Lockdown

The federal government has said the majority of Nigerians support the decision of the government to impose a lockdown in some states as a way of containing the spread of coronavirus.

Lai Mohammed, the minister of information and culture, on Thursday, April 16, said a poll by West Africa’s number one polling services, NOI Polls, showed that 78% of Nigerians backed the federal government’s lockdown strategy as an appropriate method of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

The minister speaking during Thursday’s edition of the media briefing by the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on the COVID-19 Pandemic in Abuja, also dismissed allegations that the government failed to adequately enlighten Nigerians on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mohammed pointed out that the poll showed that level of awareness of the outbreak among Nigerians at 99%.