The federal government of Nigeria has released an additional fund of Over Six Billion (6.5bn) to the authority of the National Centre for Disease Control in a bid to fight the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
Federal government made this known in a tweet by the personal assistant on New Media to President Muhammadu Buhari, Bashir Ahmad who tweeted the new development on his Twitter handle.
Ahmad wrote;
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.
