President Muhammadu Buhari has made some exemptions on his
lockdown order over coronavirus.
The order, announced on Sunday night, affects Abuja, Lagos
and Ogun States and is effective 11pm Monday night.
However, on Monday, Buhari exempted financial services
players from the movement restrictions.
A statement jointly signed by Minister of Finance, Zainab
Ahmed and Central Bank governor, Godwin Emefiele, said this followed an appeal.
It read: “To ensure that Nigerians can still perform online
transactions and use ATMs whilst observing these restrictions, we will like to
inform the general public and all affected stakeholders that we have obtained
exemptions from the President to allow very skeletal operations in the
Financial System and Money Markets in order to keep the system in light
operations during this time”.
The statement added that all relevant staff of affected
outfits and agencies should look out for further instructions from their
immediate bosses.
The statement said the government was mindful of the
difficulties the restrictions would bring on ordinary Nigerians and are
grateful to the President for approval.
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