Africa’s Biggest City on Lockdown to Curb Virus in Nigeria
- President Buhari orders shutdown to come into effect on Monday
- Buhari tells citizens ‘it’s a matter of life and death’
Hakeem Odumosu, Lagos Commissioner of Police, center, squeezes through a crowded market to monitor compliance measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus in Lagos on March 26.
Photographer: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images
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Nigeria will restrict all movement of people and ordered businesses and offices closed in its two main cities, Lagos and Abuja, as well as Ogun state -- the three areas in Africa’s most populous nation that have been hit hardest by the coronavirus.