President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that the first phase of the eased lockdown measure be sustained for another two weeks.
Secretary to the Government of the Federation SGF and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic, Mr Boss Mustapha, announced this during Monday’s daily press briefing by the task force.
The SGF explained that the President’s decision was informed by the realisation of the fact that any further relaxation of measures adopted to contain the spread of COVID-19 would mean grave danger for the nation.
Mustapha, who took a cursory review of the last two weeks when the current measures were instituted, observed that despite the efforts made so far, Nigeria was not ripe yet for a full opening of the economy, adding that all necessary sacrifices must be made in the interest of Nigerians.
To this end, he said President Buhari had ordered that the current level of eased lockdown should be repeated from midnight of Monday, May 18 to June 1, 2020, this would include the 8pm to 6am nationwide curfew that had since been in force.
He also said that the total lockdown on Kano state had been extended with another two weeks, while a precision lockdown would be imposed on states or metropolitan areas which had been identified as high burden areas.
Also, the SGF said government would henceforth engage in aggressive scaling up of community participation in the campaign against the COVID-19 scourge.
He, however, informed again that all the exemptions that had earlier been given as the first phase of eased lockdown commenced would remain as before, especially as it related to farmers who need to resume for planting season.
“Ladies and gentlemen, the reality is that in spite of the modest progress made, Nigeria is not yet ready for full opening of the economy and tough decisions have to be taken for the good of the greater majority. Any relaxation will only portend grave danger for our populace.”
“Advisedly, the current phase of eased restriction will be maintained for another two weeks during which stricter enforcement and persuasion measures will be pursued.”
“The two weeks extension of Phase one of the eased restriction is also to enable other segments of the economy prepare adequately for compliance with the guidelines, preparatory to reopening in the coming weeks.”
“For the PTF, we share your pains but our future is in the hands of every Nigerian and future decisions will depend greatly on our compliance.”
“Based on the recommendations of the PTF, Mr. President has approved the following: Thee measures, exemptions, advisories and scope of entities allowed to reopen under phase one of the eased locked down, shall be maintained across the federation for another two weeks effective from 12 00 midnight today (18th May, 2020 to 1st June, 2020);”
“Intensifying efforts to “tell (communicate), trace (identify) and treat (manage)’ cases; elevating the level of community ownership of non-pharmaceutical interventions;”
“Maintain the existing lockdown order in Kano for an additional two weeks; Imposition of precision lockdown in states, or in metropolitan/high-burden LGAs, that are reporting a rapidly increasing number of cases, when the need arises. This would be complemented with the provision of palliatives and continued re-evaluation of the impact of the interventions;” and
“Aggressive scale up of efforts to ensure that communities are informed, engaged and participating in the response with enhanced public awareness in high risk states”, he said.
The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has extended the gradual easing of the lockdown by two weeks.
The PTF Chairman and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, announced this on Monday during the briefing of the members of the task force in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
Meanwhile, recall President Muhammadu Buhari directed the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 to work closely with state governors.
The President gave the directive on Monday at a virtual meeting with some members of the Nigeria Governors Forum.
In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, President Buhari disclosed that the PTF had briefed him on the next steps in the national response to the pandemic.
He explained that working closely with the governors would bring better harmony in the daunting task of curbing the spread of the pandemic.
“I have directed that they work very closely with the Governors.
“The pandemic was beyond technology, power, and resources, countries that had all those, were recording the highest casualties round the world.
“We have to be very careful. We need to continue to educate and persuade the people to accept the reality of the situation, and do all that is necessary to stay safe,” the President added.
The meeting also discussed economic and security issues, among others, with the governors commending the President on the “leadership and direction” he has given the country in combating COVID-19.
Pope Francis inaugurated the full reopening of St. Peter’s Basilica on Monday and Catholic churches held public Masses for the first time in two months in the latest easing of Italy’s coronavirus restrictions.
Francis said a private Mass in a side chapel where St. John Paul II is buried to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the late Polish pope’s birth.
The basilica, which on Friday underwent a sanitising to make it as cornavirus-free as possible, later opened to the public for Masses by priests on other side altars after the pope had left.
Signs in English and Italian told those entering that they had to keep at least 1.5 metres (five feet) apart, wear masks and sanitise their hands.
Churches throughout Italy began holding Masses under strict new guidelines worked out between the country’s bishops and government.
The faithful will have to wear masks. Priests can celebrate most of the Mass without masks but they will have to wear one, as well as gloves, when they distribute the communion wafer.
The communion is to be given in the hand and not the mouth.
On Sunday, the pope urged Italians to observe the new norms “in order to defend each other’s health and the health of the people.”
But, according to an Italian reporter inside the basilica on Monday morning, at least one priest at a side altar did not wear gloves or a mask while giving communion.
Technically, St. Peter’s has remained open during the Italian lockdown which began in early March, although only for private prayer.
Only very few people have entered because of increased security to avoid gatherings in the square outside.
The Vatican has not yet announced when the pope will say a Mass from the main altar before the public.
His services since early March have been held in an almost empty chapel in his residence and streamed live on the internet or on television.
The Vatican has said that when St. Peter’s opened for large Masses on Sundays and holy days, thermal scanners would be used to check the temperatures of those going inside.
There was a mild drama yesterday in Abuja when three pastors denied members of their churches to evade arrest by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Ministerial Enforcement Team, for violating the ban on places of worship in the territory.
The pastors, Ibitoye Kayode of the Liberty Faith Gospel Church, Joshua Olaniru of Liberty Gate Ministry and Vitalis Udeazi of Dominion Chapel, were said to have congregated with their members on a commonly shared prayer mountain located around Lugbe Federal Housing, for worship when the Enforcement Team swooped on them.
The leader of the Enforcement Team, Ikharo Attah, said some of the pastors even denied allegiance to their churches, as they tried in vain to hide their true identities during interrogation.
According to him, the clerics “fought vehemently” to conceal their names and the names of their churches.
Attah disclosed that after much argument between the pastors and their members, the clerics were arrested and arraigned before the mobile court for violating the ban.
He said one of the pastors even denied before the task force that any of his members was present on the mountain top.
The denial was said to have been protested by the members who said it was the same pastor who led them to the mountain for prayers.
“Why are you all denying these large groups of worshippers? No one among you agreed that anyone came to worship with them even when they turned out in large numbers. One of you even went ahead to deny being a pastor,” Attah challenged the clerics.
Another cleric, Pastor Effiong Bassey, of the Holiness Revival Ministry Church, Karamajiji, was apprehended for holding a church service to mark the 60th birthday of a retired military colonel, P. E. Ebong, who left the military in 2015.
“You cannot hold a worship service in defiance of the directives of the Commander in Chief just to mark the 60th birthday of a retired colonel. Even for a serving colonel it is very wrong. You have to come with us and explain it to the magistrate at the mobile court,” Attah told Bassey.
The arrested clerics were consequently arraigned before a Mobile Court presided over by Magistrate Akonni.
Akonni found them guilty and fined them N5,000 each,
There was mild drama at the Federal Housing Authourity, Lugbe as some pastors tried to evade prosecution by the FCT Ministerial Enforcement Taskforce on COVID-19 Restriction.
The Pastors, who have partitioned the rocks behind FHA Lugbe as their worship centres on Sunday, denied ownership of the large crowd worshipping on the hilltop.
The Pastors are Ibitoye Kayode of the Liberty Faith Gospel Church, Pastor Joshua Olaniru of Liberty Gate Ministry and Pastor Vitalis Udeazi of Dominion Chapel.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, trouble started when the task team stormed the area and could not differentiate worshippers and their religious leaders.
After brief interrogation, the three Pastors were identified from the crowd although Udeazi tried to conceal his identity.
He said that none of his members was present at the time the members of the task force arrived the mountain top.
However, that did not go down well with other Pastors who protested vehemently that he was one of them.
Luck ran out on him when some members identified him as their Pastor, although he still insisted that they were his prayer members.
Similarly, Olaniru, who also denied any wrong doing, was identified in a video while conducting service before the arrival of the task force team.
Addressing the Pastors, Chairman of the task force, Ikharo Attah, expressed disappointment with the clerics for denying the large group of worshippers.
“No one among you agreed that anyone came to worship in his Church even when they turned out in large numbers. One of you even went ahead to deny being a Pastor.”
Attah also cautioned them against holding worship service in defiant of the presidential directive.
The clerics were arraigned before the Mobile court presided by Magistrate Idayat Akonni and fined N5,000 each in addition to three hours community service.
Thousands of Greeks returned to church on Sunday after weeks of staying away as a ban on mass gatherings to curb the spread of the coronavirus was eased.
It was a special moment for those who gathered from early Sunday morning in the courtyard of Ayios Spiridonas Church in Piraeus, where the melodious chants of the Sunday liturgy were broadcast on loudspeakers and heard down to the sea port.
“I can’t describe my feelings.
“After two and a half months of quarantine, we are in our church again,’’ said Stella Kasimati, 76.
“We are allowed what we were deprived of for two and a half months, going to church and Holy Communion,’’ she told Reuters.
Greeks were not only deprived of weekly congregations but had to spend the highlight of their religious calendar, Easter, which was on April 19, indoors.
The lockdown was introduced in mid-March.
Normally adjoining pews were replaced with chairs inside the church and in its courtyard as social distancing rules applied.
Chairs were set two metres apart with boundaries in the courtyard marked with red and white masking tape.
Disposable gloves and antiseptic was available at the entrance.
Some individuals kissed icons, as is customary in the Greek Orthodox religion.
A woman wiped the icon with an antiseptic before the next person approached.
Church warden, Petros Anagnostakis, 74, said preparations to reopen the church had been ongoing for about a week.
“Today is a great celebration, we are overjoyed and touched; it’s a great celebration for us,’’ he said, visibly moved.
In unison, churchgoers recited the Creed, a declaration of faith in God and Jesus.
Greece has recorded a lower number of COVID-19 cases and deaths than other countries.
By Saturday evening, it had recorded 2,819 cases and 162 deaths.
“I think it’s a miracle that Greece didn’t have that many deaths or people sick,’’ said Kasimati.
Tammy Abraham has outlined his everyday activity as the lockdown continues although he has admitted cooking food has not been taking up any of his time.
The Chelsea centre-forward appeared on the BBC’s Football Focus programme, detailed how he is remaining active as well as describing his downtime, and he gave his opinion on a well-known African food dish; Jollof rice.
On how he is and how he has been spending time, Abraham said: “I’m good. I’ve just been chilling – legs up, laid back and just been playing PlayStation all day – mixing it up playing FIFA, Call of Duty and Fortnite. I have come so close at winning on War Zone but I haven’t yet.”
He chose Fikayo Tomori as the team-mate he would most like to spend quarantine with due to their shared enthusiasm for playing Monopoly. There does however need to be greater physical activity than that from Abraham to maintain fitness.
“We have a schedule from the club,” he confirmed. “You can mix it up if you really want to. It is going for a run, different types of run, upper-body sessions, lower-body sessions.
“I keep active and any time I have the chance to kick a ball around the house I always take advantage of that and it has been good I have been staying active and fit.”
But when it comes to nutrition, he had an admission to make.
“My sister or my mum or dad cook for me, I am lucky to have them in the house and not have to do it myself.”
Asked to choose between the Nigerian and Ghanaian versions of jollof rice and having been qualified to play for Nigeria through his father before committing his international future to England, his choice was of little surprise.
“Can I cook jollof? Absolutely not but my mum can, so probably the meal I have had most in quarantine has been jollof rice.
“The Nigeria version is my choice to be honest. The Ghanaian one is a little bit more spicy but it is about the flavours, not just about the spice, how it sits in your mouth, how it digests into your stomach.”
The Ogun State Government says it will extend the current lockdown in the state by another one week.
Gov. Dapo Abiodun made this known while addressing journalists on Friday evening in Abeokuta.
He said it had become expedient to further add another week to the lockdown in view of the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the state.
He attributed the rise in the number of cases to the expanded testing capacity of the state, which is 450 per day, and stubborn residents who have continued to flout orders put in place to flatten the curve of the virus.
He noted that the relaxation windows of lockdown would follow the existing pattern of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays till May 24.
“Consequently in view of the evidence of community transmission and poor compliance with the lockdown measures, we are constrained to extend the lockdown for another week till Sunday 24th of May.
“The current pattern of lockdown, with relaxation windows from 7.00a.m. to 5.00p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday continue.
“We must also bear in mind that the daily curfew from 8p.m. to 6a.m. and the ban on non-essential inter-state travel as directed by Mr President still stands,” he said.
Abiodun, however, said the level of compliance with the lockdown measures would continue to be monitored.
“Hopefully, there will be positive developments that will enable us further ease the lockdown at the end of this new lockdown period,” he said.
The governor added that the extended lockdown came as a result of a public opinion poll which, according to him, had 53 percent in support of the continuation, while 43 percent wanted a review just as 4 percent were undecided.
He urged residents to be compliant with all the laid down rules and regulations, saying it should be seen as a moral responsibility and civic duty.
Only essential service providers with approved permits from appropriate authorities were allowed the right of movement across the country.
30 persons found tucked between goats in the trailer
However, despite the subsisting ban, one of the regular, almost cliche kind of news stories during the lockdown is the arrest of trailer loads of young able bodied northerners (98 percent males) hiding under the ‘almajirai’ camouflage to sneak into the southern region of the country.
For clearer understanding of the terms, Wikipedia defines ‘Almajiranci’ as a system of Islamic education practiced in northern Nigeria. The male gender seeking Islam knowledge is called ‘Almajiri’ while the female gender is called ‘Almajira’, and the plural is ‘Almajirai’.The system encourages parents to leave parental responsibilities to the attached Islamic school. Colloquially, the word ‘Almajiri’ has expanded to refer to any young person who begs on the streets and does not attend secular school.
Unlike the typical almajirai who are usually underage, malnourished and dependent on alms for survival, the pictures and videos from the scenes of interception across the southern states showed that those arrested so far are adults and people of sound mind.
Sometimes numbering over 500 in a 40-feet truck, these so-called almajirai who are old enough to have fathered several offspring according to the tradition in that part of the country move like they are on a mission. Those who are not bold enough to travel alone hide in between their cows to escape the prying eyes of the law enforcement agencies stationed at the various inter-state borders. Their movement is not restricted to a particular time of the day as arrests have been made in broad daylight and at night.
Trailer load of humans intercepted in DeltaThis worrisome development has further tensed the security situation in the country and also cast aspersions on the sincerity of the COVID-19 fight.
While it is safe to say that COVID-19 has permeated the entire length and breadth of the country (except for Kogi and Cross River States) with Lagos being epicentre followed distantly by Kano, one then wonders the aims of such illegal and deceitful movement at this sensitive time of our national lives.
So far, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequential ban on inter-state movements, full truck loads of these northerners have been intercepted and arrested in all the South South, South East and South West States.
Expulsion of almajirai to home states totally a northern affair
A major pointer to the strangeness of the sudden invasion of these all-men northerners to the South is that the ‘deportation’ and reception of almajirai to their home states has been a northern intergovernmental affair.
TNG reports that governors under the aegis of the Northern Governors’ Forum (NGF) had in April issued a statement where they “discussed the risk that Almajiri children are exposed to due to the virus. They unanimously decided to ban the Almajiri system and evacuate the children to their parents or states of origin.
“They vowed never to allow the system to persist any longer because of the social challenges associated with it including the perpetuation of poverty, illiteracy, insecurity and social disorder.”
Kebbi State Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu later confirmed the development saying: “Some states have already started implementing this decision by taking back such Almajiri children to their own states of origin. I do believe that all the states in the region will soon commence the repatriation and this is for the common good of the states and Nigeria in general.”
The Kano State Commissioner of Education Muhammad Sanusi-Kiru recently explained that the deportation was to safeguard public health and stem the spread of the pandemic.
Stressing that the exercise would be continuous, he said in a statement: “The Almajiri students will be evacuated to Katsina, Kaduna, Jigawa, Yobe, Bauchi, Zamfara, Gombe, Nasarawa States and the Niger Republic.”
However, the deported almajirai are decently transported in a convoy of government and security officials and handed over to the receiving governments in a civil manner. So far, none of the coordinated deportation processes which began in April involved use of trucks or other dangerously exposed, insecure means of transportation to deliver the almajirai to their home states as witnessed with the arrests so far.
It is however important to note that the monstrous virus has further claimed more territories during the deportation spree. Several of the children transported back and forth have tested positive for the virus, therefore questioning the timing of the eradication of the Almajiranci policy.
Timeline of arrests
While the movement trend of northerners into the South is not new, however, the planned, consistent and massive intrusion into the region particularly since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic (through any means possible) amid a subsisting ban on inter-state movement of people and vehicles cannot be waved off as normal.
In what has become a daily news item, TNG recalls the following intrusion and subsequent arrests of the ‘almajirai’ at various border points of southern states:
How intruders cross inter-state borders unhindered
It still remains a mystery yet to be solved, why Nigeria operates porous borders. At national and international levels, our borders are all porous and the officials stationed there are most times willing to compromise with few wards of naira notes.
The unhindered inter-state movements during a subsisting lockdown order couldn’t have been possible if the borders aren’t so porous and officials negligent and corrupt.
All the arrested intruders allude to how they easily ‘greased’ the palms of the officials at the borders. Most of the arrests made were either by the State Task Force on COVID-19 or the executive governor of the particular state.
A concerned citizen said to unravel the easy movement of these intruders, these security questions must be asked with verifiable answers. “Where were they (the intruders) coming from?
How did they pass the other cordons in the many States, in between, to get to the cape of the sea as Rivers State or Akwa Ibom or Cross River or Delta or Edo or Enugu, etc?
Who failed to do what he was supposed to do all the way from wherever they started the journey?
How had they been feeding as they journeyed?
Who was planned to receive them as they arrived their destinations?
However, in what seemed like a response to the questions above, one those arrested by Governor Wike in Rivers last week, Ahmed Aliyu said they were contracted from Adamawa State to bring cattle to one Alhaji at the new slaughter in Oyigbo. He said that he thought that the lockdown will start by 10pm. He informed that the moved into the state after they bribed security personnel with N1500.
Those arrested so far are not almajiris, they are terrorists on a deadly mission – Concerned Nigerians
Nigerians, particularly of the southern extract have expressed their unreserved concerns (online and offline) over what they term a likely security crisis that may bedevil the region if the aim behind the calculated and massive intrusion of the northern youths is not uncovered and thwarted.
Ex-Niger Delta militant, Asari Dokubo in a video warned of the imminent danger inherent in the forceful encroachment of the northerners down South. According to him, the movement is questionable and smells of ulterior motives, He advised governors, ministers, lawmakers and other leaders in the region to plan a counter-strategy before it is too late.
A prominent South South figure who does not want his name in print also expressed his mind thus: “Those trailer/container loads may not even be almajiris. They may be well trained fighters of the extremist Boko Haram.
What a window of opportunity for them to come down en masse! The annihilation has been long planned out.
No doubt, the governors strutting about, shouting and gesticulating under the sun, in public shows of efforts at stopping the spread of Coronavirus may never have given it a thought. They sincerely believe they are working hard, and very hard, to stop the spread of Covid-19.
But what has presented ought to be seen to be different. Few weeks ago, Boko Haram was quoted as saying that it would strike in the South-south and South East. Many may have considered it preposterous. But what do they know. Now, Boko Haram has been largely walloped in the Chad region due to the efficiency of the Chadian army. They must find bases, and they may have rolled down south.
And the governors have been caught pants down.
The evidence is there. They just intercept lorries or trailers and ask them to return to where they came from. Matter closed! Really? In a country which has been held by the throat by a terrorist organisation since 2009? Strange!
Even our much talked about special intelligence units? They all bought the idea that these were almajiris? Nobody followed them to find out if they actually moved a few metres away from the last point the governor and his clean-shaven officials could see?
And for God’s sake, almajiris ought to be kids or teenagers. Those in view are spirtely young men, some quite smart to pass any entry physical test of any army. Some are kitted with clean cans and backpacks. There was no single forlorn look on the face of any of these i observed. They looked poised and happy like tourists.
The governors are simply being emotional. They ought to know. Those being moved down are not almajirtis. They are young men on a mission.”
Popular columnist and journalist, Lasisi Olagunju in an article titled ‘Almajirai’s expedition to the South’ and published on May 11 in the Tribune Newspapers said: ‘COVID-19 may be composing a requiem for Nigeria. Or do you sincerely think the country would be the same again if the North’s unhealthy conducts explode in unimaginable deaths as is gradually evolving before our very eyes? The South’s zest for life or what the French call joie de vivre, won’t let them allow the North infect them with suicidal foolishness. If the present resistance to infiltration of the South by the almajirai is sustained and the push from the North is unceasing, what do you think will be the result, ultimately? A new traditional ruler was enthroned somewhere in Borno State a few days ago, we saw how suicidal the crowd behaved. Why is it difficult for the far North to live in the 21st century like the rest of humanity? That part of Nigeria cannot continue to treat civilized protocols of safety in a pandemic with disgust and still want to share the Nigerian room with people who don’t want to die. The North needs be told clearly that suicide is not a native of southern Nigeria.
Recent spikes in coronavirus cases are traced to the almajirai moving across the country. The South is aghast; the North is unbothered. And we are in the same country.
The almajiri system is at the core of northern Nigeria’s politics of national domination. It is a key component of the North’s “infrastructure of violence.” Almajirai are the region’s well-nurtured, purpose-grown, ever ready troops, useful at all desperate times – elections, censuses, riots. Now, they are suddenly made a major vector of this bad season. That northern governors see the almajirai as a problem to be solved with COVID-19 is suspect. When you look into the angry eyes of those street boys, you see ghostly destinies frozen by accidents of their geography and birth. The almajirai we see regularly are predominantly male. Where are the girls? The ones not killed by random diseases have their destinies ruptured by the rape of child- marriage. Those who created them as problems are now pushing them South through unimaginable channels. They are daily hidden and daily discovered in unseemly, unlikely enclosures. Some under sacks of beans, some in millet and onion bags; some in suffocating containers and inside empty petrol tankers. They are dispersing them everywhere but nobody wants them anywhere near; no one, not even those who created and raised them to be street children forever. The most unwanted people in Nigeria of today are the almajirai — used, abused and now unleashed to spread viruses. And they are doing it very well; one of the COVID-19 patients who escaped quarantine in Oyo State last week was a 10-year old almajiri. He is still at large’.
Their consistent, distributive movement across South sign of hidden, dangerous agenda – Security experts
Meanwhile, some security experts who spoke exclusively with TNG said a study of the movements since the trend became noticeable showed that the immigrants were consistent and made deliberate journey to cover the all the southern states. They noted that beyond the popular fear of deliberate spread of the virus in the region by the intruders, a much more dangerous motive maybe unlocking sooner than expected if governors and other authoritative people do not act fast.
Bernad Dickson has been in the security business for decades. Speaking on the northern youths’ invasion into the South and the looming danger, he said: “You cannot take this for a coincidence. A careful examination of it all shows they have made a stop at virtually all the Southern states. That tells you that there is a deliberate attempt at causing coordinated chaos across the South at an agreed time. This is beyond the casual thought that they are coming to spread the virus. It is beyond that. People have recovered from the virus. But they may wreak a bigger havoc than the coronavirus or any other virus for that matter can. The governors or whoever is in charge of the arrests should stop the foolish trend of just turning the intruders back. They should be interrogated and made to give information that can help avert the looming crisis in their region.
One thing that we have come to establish as security experts is that terrorists are not afraid to die. They are ready to offer their lives in the course of carrying out whatever evil assignments they are commissioned to do. Yes, sniffing out information from them might be difficult because most times they have sworn allegiance to their benefactors but some will confess the sinister motives upon cajoling, torturing and ‘de-brainwashing’ albeit all done as professionally as possible.”
Actress Ini Edo has revealed a new endorsement deal amid the lockdown in Lagos State.
The actress revealed the brand that she has decided to represent following the conclusion of negotiations with her management.
Ini Edo took to her Instagram account over the week to announce the deal with a luxurious kitchenware outfit.
“I am super proud and excited to be a part of the Pedini family! I’ve just signed up with Nigeria’s number 1 Luxury kitchen brand and they’re about to give me an amazing kitchen makeover! Don’t worry fam, I will be taking you guys along on my Pedini Kitchen Makeover journey! So stay tuned,” she announced.
On Wednesday, May 12, the actress subtly re-announced her deal with Ghanaian herbal drink, Adonko with a picture. Ini Edo held on to a bottle of the herbal drink and wrote, “Did I tell you Adonko is purely herbal? Yes, it is… Drink responsibly.”
In February 2020, Ini Edo was first revealed as one of the herbal drink’s brand ambassadors. She was joined by Jim Iyke, Uti Nwachukwu, Charles Okocha, Melvin Oduah, Victor AD, and Teddy A as the brand’s ambassador.
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