Food and cash assistance for residents of Lagos, Abuja and Kano by FG and World Food Programme

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Federal Government had on Monday launched a cash and food assistance initiative valued at $4 million in the three urban centers mostly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the country; Lagos, Abuja and Kano.

The Federal Government had released 2,000 metric tons of food from its Strategic Grain Reserve valued at $1 million, while WFP was releasing $3 million to provide cash assistance to 500,000 vulnerable residents in the three states to help sustain them in these trying times of COVID-19 as prices of food items are said to be on the increase. The distribution of the palliatives is said to have kicked off already in Kano state.

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