Coronavirus: How ministers, lawmakers elsewhere are helping compared with Nigerian counterparts
Nigeria, March 30 -- Hit by the impact of coronavirus, Nigeria, like other countries, has been mopping up funds from every means possible to fight the plague and support its shaky economy.
This has been lately due to the free fall in oil prices that has left the country's 2020 budget in limbo.
With an eye on getting ?120 billion, the government, in a public-private coalition, formed a funding committee, which has Aliko Dangote, Herbert Wigwe, Jim Ovia, Tony Elumelu, Segun Agbaje, Abdulsamad Rabiu and Femi Otedola as members.
Each of them is to contribute at least ?1 billion.
Also, in what they called a "gesture of solidarity and support for the FG's efforts to tackle the disease," the nation's 43 ministers have also pledged to have a ...
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