UN, ECOWAS donate palliatives to Abuja, Kano Lagos residents
Receiving members of the National Commercial Tricycle and Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association led by its president, Alhaji Muhammed Sani Hassan, yesterday in Abuja, the minister charged the executive council to ensure that its members were duly captured. Saraki said the pandemic had necessitated contact tracing of passengers, as normalcy gradually returns to the country, adding that government was aware of the vital role of tricycle and motorcycle operators in the industry.IN a related development, the United Nations World Food Programme has launched a $3 million cash transfer and a food assistance of 2000metric tonnes of grain valued at $1 million to worst hit urban areas of Abuja, Kano and Lagos states to cushion the impact of the disease.
WFP Country Representative, Paul Howe, during the Kano leg of the event yesterday, noted that “this is the first time that WFP is expanding its programme in Nigeria to reach people in towns and cities – where millions of people are threatened with hunger and malnutrition – due to the socio-economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.”
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