Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele, on Wednesday at the Super Eagles camp in Garoua, broke the news to the players
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The Coalition, made up of giants in the private sector, made the appeal in a statement it issued on Monday.
Sanusi expressed his disapproval at the unveiling of his book ‘For the Good of the Nation,’ on Tuesday in Lagos.
The Director of Press, Ministry of Interior, Mrs Blessing Lere-Adams, made this known in a statement on Monday in Abuja.
Buhari made this position known in a broadcast to commemorate this year’s Democracy Day on Saturday.
A national daily had on Saturday, in its report, claimed to have sighted a document put together by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), and presented to the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF), which set the budget for the logistics distribution of vaccines to the states and council areas at N10.6 billion.
The Group stated this in a statement in reaction to the position of COCAVID on Monday.
Updating media on the latest donations by CACOVID in Lagos on Monday, the Managing Director and CEO of Aliko Dangote Foundation, who doubles as an administrator of CACOVID, Zouera Youssoufou, said the provision of oxygen to all the isolation centres across the country was made available by a key partner of CACOVID, Raj Gupta of African Industries Group, at no cost, immediately the request for oxygen was made from the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19.
The rice, packed in 10kg bags, are meant to cushion the adverse effects of the deadly virus among the state’s residents.
Some respondents, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Sunday, commended the initiative, while some described it as a “misplaced priority”.
CACOVID is a private sector-led organisation established to assist the government in combating the Coronavirus disease in the Nigeria.
The Head, Media and Public Affairs, Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday, said that the forum’s 21st teleconference would start by 2pm.
The package includes an initial deposit of N500 million for MSMEs and another N500 million as compensation to victims of police brutality and injustice.
Alhaji Bayo Jimoh, Secretary to the committee, in a statement in Osogbo, said the looted items were donated to the committee as palliatives to the people by the Private Sector Coalition Against COVID-19.
CACOVID, a coalition of Organised Private Sector operators, had earlier in the year pooled resources together to complement the Federal and States Governments efforts at curbing the COVID-19 pandemic.
Governor Abubakar Sani Bello on Thursday during the flag off ceremony in Minna said the beneficiaries of the palliative were selected from the 25 local government areas of Niger State.
The launch was carried out on Thursday.
Presenting the test kits and medical equipment at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Lagos office, the Chief Executive Officer, Aliko Dangote Foundation, Zouera Youssoufou, commended the efforts of the public health institute in the fight against the virus and expressed optimism that the test kits and medical supplies provided would further expand testing capabilities across the nation to meet critical health infrastructure need to combat the virus.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, speaking at the inauguration of the centre in Yaba on Sunday, said it would assist the state government to enhance its COVID-19 pandemic response.
A statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Taiwo Adisa, indicated that Makinde gave this assurance while receiving support of medical equipment worth N220 million from the Coalition Against COVID-19, a private sector initiative supporting the Federal Government and State Governments in fight against COVID-19.