The Dangote Group of companies has informed its staff members that the lockdown break given by the government is now a part of the company annual leave.

This was made official through a memo which reads, "This is to advice all staff that the lockdown period will be regarded as part of Leave Period and therefore annual leave consuming."

"Where any staff has exhausted his/her leave period, a commensurate amount would be deducted to cover the period."

The memo has generated mixed reactions since its release.

It will be recalled that the coronavirus has really affected a lot of business organization which has necessitated many companies to be adopting different strategy to recover from the drastic effect