In a brief ceremony, the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation delivered cheques totalling nearly $2 million to the World Food Programme and the Nigeria Red Cross Society.
Funding was made available by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) who reached out to the ministry to coordinate the project.
At the inception meeting of its Flood Assistance Programme, attended by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, World Food Programme and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ECOWAS Commissioner for Human Development and Social Affairs, Fatou Sarr, handed over both cheques to the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs who then handed them over to the Red Cross and the World Food Programme.
