Nnamdi Kanu Pledges ₦50 MILLION To Help Fight Coronavirus In Southeast, South-South

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has said that he will donate ₦50 million for the containment of coronavirus in Southeast and South-South of Nigeria.

The IPOB Leader disclosed this during his broadcast on Radio Biafra monitored by Oriental Times Thursday evening.

The number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in Nigeria has risen to 65, the country’s centre for disease control said on Thursday evening.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said 14 new cases were confirmed late on Thursday. Of the 14, six were detected on a vessel, 3 were returning travellers into Nigeria and was a close contact of a confirmed case.

Two of those cases were confirmed in Abuja while the remaining 12 were in Lagos, NCDC said.

Lagos has recorded highest number of cases in Nigeria, followed by FCT.

No case of the pandemic has been recorded in any Southeast state yet. However, in South-South, Rivers and Edo States have both recorded 1 case each.