16/05/20
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DANIELS G O
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari received the Madagascan native formulation against the Covid-19 pandemic on Saturday.
Speaking At a meeting with President Umaro Sissoco Embalo of Guinea Bissau who brought along with him to the Presidential Villa samples of the traditional medicine as shared to African nations by Madagascar, President Buhari said his position on all such herbal or traditional medicinal postulates had remained the same,and that he will listen to science before allowing traditional or any new medicines to be administered on Nigerians.
On the main reason for his visit, President Embalo said having stabilized his country after the tussles that attended the general elections won by him, he had come to seek counsel from President Buhari on his plan for a government of national unity and a proposed war against corruption in his country.
He also said that his new government met a country beset with a number of issues and problems, the resolution of which would require tremendous assistance from Nigeria.
President Buhari used the opportunity of the visit to praise the good work that the President of Niger Republic, Mahamadou Issoufou, who is the current Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is doing in the sub-region, and commended him for keeping him informed of all that is happening around.