Coronavirus: Yahaya Bello lifts ban on religious gatherings, lists conditions

The governor of Kogi state, Yahaya Bello, has lifted the ban placed on religious congregations in the state over the coronavirus pandemic with immediate effect.

Governor Bello’s move, according to Kingsley Fanwo, the state’s commissioner for information and communication, is to allow religious bodies to have their normal worship and services.

The governor, however, we urged the religious leaders in the state to put in place important preventive measures.

We gathered that the religious leaders were directed to provide sanitizers for all worshippers at the entrance of churches and mosques.

Sitting arrangements in mosques and churches should also comply with the social distancing directive, the governor said.

He also urged the religious leaders to make their services as brief as possible.

The Kogi state’s COVID-19 Squadron Committee urged all the religious leaders in the state to continue to pray for the end of the pandemic so that the world can return to normal life and activities.

Kogi state is one of the Nigerian states that have not recorded any confirmed cases of COVID-19.

Nigeria’s total confirmed COVID-19 cases in 17 states, including the FCT, stand at 276 at the time of this report.

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