Coronavirus: Nigeria And Japan Sign $18.2m Deal
March 4, 2020
2:11 pm
The Nigerian Government has signed a $18.2m grant agreement with Japan to strengthen the capacity of network laboratories of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control for accurate medical and laboratory investigations.
The Nation reports that Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, signed the agreement on behalf of Nigeria.
Agba praised the Japanese Government for fulfilling the promise made by Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, to Nigeria at the TICAD 7 Conference in Tokyo, last year.
Agba described the signing of the grant agreement as βtimelyβ, against the backdrop of the recent outbreak of βthe COVID-19 …
