10 Million Nigerians To Receive ₦23bn Palliatives – CACOVID
August 7, 2020
3:49 pm
The Organised Private Sector Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) has commenced distribution exercise.
The palliatives worth ₦23billion targets 10 million Nigerians.
Zouera Youssoufou, the CACOVID Administrator, made this known on Thursday.
President Muhammadu Buhari had in May approved the opening of five COVID-19 Donor Accounts.
In April, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) revealed that CACOVID donations had risen to N25.8 billion.
Youssoufou said the palliatives were to mitigate the effect of the coronavirus pandemic.
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She gave the breakdown as 1.6 million households, amounting to 10 million people in 774 local …
