Coronavirus: Senate laments lack of proper screening at Nigerian airports
01 March 2020 |
1:17 pm
In fulfillment of its representative mandate as the representatives of the Nigerian people as enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), the Senate on Thursday, February 27, 2020 raised the alarm over the poor screening of Coronavirus in the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Considering the health hazard the disease may pose to the nation, the issue was brought to the burner by the Senate following a Point of Order 43 raised by Sen. Ajayi Boroffice (Ondo North).
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