Iheme Faith Uloma, the former Big Brother Naija housemate who is more popularly known as Ifu Ennada, took to her Instagram page to lament the hike in the price of face mask in Nigeria due to the confirmation of the deadly Coronavirus in Lagos.
In the video shared by the reality TV star, a pharmacist could be heard saying the new price.
Ifeanyi Ennada captioned the video; “Disposable face masks now 15,000 Naira! No longer 750naira or 10,000 naira which was the latest price in Lekki this morning like I reported some mins ago. This video was sent to me by one of my sisters who’s on the mainland.
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“Nigerians, we are our own problem. I hope these Pharmacies ripping people off their money also educate them on how to use and also inform them that only those who already have the Virus need to wear these face masks.”
Following the confirmation of Nigeria’s first case of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Friday, former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to take decisive actions to curtail further spread of the disease.
The ministry of health had announced that an Italian working in Nigeria had tested positive to the virus.
The Italian had returned from Milan, Italy, to Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on February 25.
Atiku, in a statement posted on his Facebook page on Friday, offered what he called his “patriotic counsel” to the Buhari administration on how to tackle COVID-19 in the country.
He said, “Nigeria needs firm and decisive actions to prevent an escalation of the scourge. Recently, we closed our borders as an act against economic sabotage. Perhaps now is the time to temporarily halt flights to and from any nation with a prevalence of this scourge. It is more important to secure human lives than to secure an economy. We also need to invest in early detection facilities at our airports.
“We must call upon our experience with the Wild Ebola Virus, of which we were the first nation in the world to defeat that scourge in 2014. How did Nigeria do it? We achieved it by showing unprecedented unity. The federal government of the day worked closely with the Lagos and Rivers state governments. There was complete unity, solidarity and oneness of purpose, which created the atmosphere that defeated that deadly infestation,” he said.
The former vice president urged Nigerians to resist the temptation to start pointing fingers and looking for who to blame, saying: “If fingers must be pointed, it must be to solutions.”
He added “But above all, Nigeria must not panic. Whether at government or individual levels. We have defeated Ebola before, and we can defeat this present predicament.
“This crisis is an opportunity to show that we are first and foremost Nigerians and that we have no other country but our dear fatherland, which we must work together to keep healthy and secure.”
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