The 2020 Christmas and New Year celebrations will be a dull affair in Benue, as the State government yesterday announced a ban on all picnic-related activities during the yuletide season.
This was the decision taken by the Benue Security Council in response to the increasing cases of COVID-19 in the State at its meeting yesterday.
The State governor, Samuel Ortom, who spoke to journalists at the end of the meeting in Makurdi, said the ban on picnics and other forms of celebrations was necessary to prevent further spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ortom said increasing numbers of cases of the pandemic in the country was worrisome, noting that like some other states in the country, Benue has started recording more cases of the pandemic in its second wave and urged residents to obey all NCDC COVID-19 protocols.
