Coronavirus: Senate to invite Health Minister, Ohanire …wants Customs to stop ‘illegal’ exportation of surgical face-masks

The Senate on Thursday resolved to invite the Minister of Health, Osagie Emmanuel Ohanire, to brief the upper chamber on the preparedness of his ministry towards taking precautionary measures to stem a possible outbreak of the Coronavirus in Nigeria. This was even as the Senate charged the Nigerian Custom Service (NCS), to as a matter of urgency, introduce measures to stop the exportation of surgical face-masks from Nigeria to Asia and other countries affected by the dreaded Coronavirus. The upper chamber also urged the Nigeria Police Force, Nigerian Civil Aviation…