COVID-19: Nigerian Government Ready To Inject Fresh N6.5bn Into Emergency Intervention Fund

The Federal Government is set to inject additional N6.5billion as an emergency intervention to the National Centre for Disease Control(NCDC).

This is according to a statement by Mr Bashir Ahmad, the personal assistant on new media to President Muhammadu Buhari who made known via his Twitter handle.

According to Mr. Ahmad the move which was confirmed by Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed, is to aid in the fight to curb the spread of the #COVID19 in the country.

Here is Bashir’s Tweet below

FLASH: The Federal Government is releasing additional N6.5 billion as an emergency intervention to the National Centre for Disease Control (@NCDCGov) as Nigeria intensifies the fight to curb the spread of the #COVID19 in the country, the finance minister has said y’day in Abuja.

— Bashir Ahmad (@BashirAhmaad) March 26, 2020