Pastor says the current shut down once happened in 1918

A senior Nigerian pastor from the Daystar Christain Centre, Sam Adeyemi, made a claim, through a live video on Instagram page, that mosques, schools, churches and markets were shut down in Nigeria during the influenza pandemic which hit the world in 1918.

He stated that he could give perspective to his followers on how to get rid of the coronavirus. Adeyemi stated that that the leader's role in a crisis is to give perspectives, and that he studied the last global pandemic before COVID-19 to give the right perspective.

Adeyemi, who made reference to the 1918 global pandemic caused by Spannish flu said:

"In 1918 September, when the thing hit, the way air travel now is the main thing for global transportation and it was air travel that moved the coronavirus around, it was sea travel that spread the influenza around then.''

"I'd tell you the one that I saw and almost screamed, they closed churches, they closed churches, they closed mosques, they shut down schools, they shut down markets. 1918. Some of us now think it is the anti-christ that is at work, he does not want us to gather together and fellowship."

"We should just be thanking God that we have Internet now and we can be relating without meeting together. They shut churches in 1918. So when the leader takes perspectives like that, then you can calm people down and then tell them there will be life after this thing."