A file photo of members of the NGF at a meeting in Abuja in January 2020.Members of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum met on Wednesday to discuss issues affecting the country, including the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Nigerians and the economy.
Governor El-Rufai, who is the Chairman of the NGF Sub-Committee on COVID-19, informed his colleagues that the recommendations of the report have been integrated into the Nigeria Economic Sustainability Plan . They also called for the revitalisation of the Nigeria’s Mortgage Bank to support the government’s housing programme, as well as the importance of the N2 trillion Nigeria Infrastructure Investment Fund to stimulate the economy.
The COVID19 pandemic and the new strategy being rolled out by the Presidential Taskforce to address the spread of the pandemic. The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, Chairman of the NGF Sub-Committee on COVID-19 who provided an update on the implementation of the Final Report of the NEC Ad-Hoc Committee on COVID-19 “Containing the Outbreak and Responding to the Adverse Economic Effects” which was presented to the Vice President and Chairman of the Committee, Professor Yemi Osinbajo in March 2020.
Oliver Stolpe, Country Representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Nigeria and Dr Yemi Kale, Statistician-General, National Bureau of Statistics presented findings of the second Corruption Survey in Nigeria, which showed that the incidence of bribery has decreased since 2016 when the survey was first conducted, from 32.3% to 30.2%.
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