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Government, Banks and Philantropists Donates to Fight Coronavirus in Nigeria (The Full List)
List of Donors for the fight Against Coronavirus in Nigeria
The outbreak of this pandemic disease-Coronavirus has been a course for concern in Nigeria and the world at large.
However, The Nigerian government has approved a 10 billion Naira grant (about $27 million) to fight the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country.
According to a statement from President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, the money will be released to Lagos State, Nigeria’s commercial center, which has the highest number of coronavirus cases in the country.
He tweeted;
“The immediate release of a 10 billion Naira grants to Lagos State, which remains the epicentre of the Covid-19 outbreak in Nigeria. This grant will enable Lagos increase its capacity to control and contain the outbreak, while also supporting other States with capacity-building.”
Unfortunately, Nigeria’s count on this outbreak keeps increasing by the day and spreading to other states including some Eastern states like; Enugu and Ebonyi.
Currently, Nigeria has a total count of 70 confirmed COVID-19 cases including 44 in Lagos, 14 in Abujaand the rest in other states.
The President is also releasing a 5 billion Naira (about $13 million) special intervention fund to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC).
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The country’s leading National Public Health Institute,NCDC has been at the forefront of the coronavirus pandemic, collating numbers and responding to suspected cases of the virus.
“The immediate release of a 5 billion Naira special intervention fund to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control to equip, expand and provide personnel to its facilities and laboratories across the country,” said President Buhari.
However, some Nigerian Philantropists and organizations, including banks, have also donated billions of Naira to help fund medical centers and provide essential materials necessary to contain the spread of this pandemic in the country.
Below is the full list in detail;
Some Nigerian Philanthropists who donated monetary value to this course include;
- Atiku Abubakar – 50million naira
- 2Face Idibia – 10million naira
- Aliko Dangote – 1Billion naira plus
- Abdulsamad Rabiu – 1Billion naira
- Femi Otedola – 1Billion naira
- Tony O. Elumelu – 1Billion naira
- Herbert O. Wigwe – 1Billion naira
- Segun Agbaje – 1Billion naira
- Jim Ovia – 1Billion naira
Some Corporate Organizations that donated to this course include;
- Access Bank – 1Billion naira
- GTBank – 1Billion naira
- Zenith Banks – 1Billion naira
- NNPC (under FG) – 11 Billion naira
- UBA. – 5 Billion naira (To African countries including Nigeria)
Federal Government donated 10billion to Lagos State Government and 5billion to fund NCDC.
However, President Muhammadu Buhari has saluted this Nigerian philanthropists and organizations for joining their resources in the fight against Covid-19 pandemic.
Some Nigerians are asking if the money should be shared equal among every Nigerian, or should it be given to State governors to build well equipped hospitals and research institutes in their respective States?
The only thing a man should beat out of his wife is poverty — Reno Omokri
Popular Nigerian author and lawyer, Reno Omokri, has dropped some words of advice for fellow men on social media.
Omokri in a post shared on his Twitter page urged men to desist from beating their wives.
The former presidential aide told men that God only designed their hands to slap away the disgrace of poverty from their wife.
Reno Omokri also said a man should never raise his hands on his wife even in the midst of provocation. According to him, a man should bear any insult from the wife, or go out when it gets too much.
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His words:
“The only thing a man should beat out of his wife is poverty. Never beat her. God designed your hand to slap away the disgrace of poverty from your wife, not to slap pain into her face. Even if she insults you, bear it. If it gets too much, go out!
If you pick the bills in your house, your wife wont pick quarrels with you. In fact, she will join your children to call you ‘daddy’. To dominate, simply eliminate poverty from your home. When your wife does not see bills, you will feel thrills!”
See his tweet below:
North east commission pledges to remove 500,000 idle youths from the streets
The North East Development Commission-Education Endowment Fund (NEDC-EEF) has expressed determination to remove over 500,000 idle youths from the streets in the next five years in the region.
Mr Macauley Hunohashi, Head of Media and Publicity of the fund, in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, said the Chairman of NEDC-EEF, Chief David Kente, made the pledge at an interactive session with Sen. Abdulazeez Nyako.
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He applauded the visionary and patriotic effort of Sen. Nyako which saw to the establishment of the commission, saying “we will sustain that vision to take the north east region to greater heights.”
Kente said the NEDC-EEF would continue to interface with consultants and experts on how to achieve part of its core mandate of converting the vast human resource the region was endowed with to human capital.
Earlier, Sen. Nyako stressed the need for the commission to provide vocational technical traning and mentorship for young men and women in the region through Local Aprenticiship Scheme.
Nyako explained that the local aprenticiship scheme was a neighbourhood empowerment project which focused on removing young people from the streets by linking them to Master Trainers within the same community.
” This will enable them to learn local trades such as motor mechanic, panel beating, volcanising, tailoring and the likes, with a monthly stipend for both the Master Trainer and the Trainee.”
The former lawmaker who represented Adamawa Central Senatorial District from 2015 to 2019, said the concept was discovered to be alot cheaper, more broad-based and with the potential to improving neighbourhood security.
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