President Muhammadu Buhari received briefing from Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday.
Osinbajo responded to questions from the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) after the meeting.
“I came to brief the President, as it is usual, the regular briefing that I give, sometimes I come physically as you have seen me today, other times I brief him on the phone or by video conference.
“What we are concerned about is how to ensure that the economy remains stable, that jobs are protected and if possible, more jobs are created.
“We are very concerned about that and the President has expressed very serious concerns about the problems that may be associated with the lockdown.
“Many of our people work for a daily wage, they have to go out to work, so we have to think in terms of how to ensure that we are able to give them some succour during the period when they are not able to work.
“Some of those issues are the issues Mr President wanted me to discuss fully with him. Of course, we have the Economic Sustainability Committee and shortly we are going to submit a full report to Mr President on our thoughts and ideas.
“Mr President asked me to meet with him in particular to resolve some of the pressing issues around COVID-19 and also around the economic problems that we are seeing already,” Osinbajo was quoted as saying in a statement by his spokesman Laolu Akande.
