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  • Dangote Foundation donates $.5m to UNICEF to fight measles

    Dangote Foundation donates $.5m to UNICEF to fight measles

    The Dangote Foundation has donated $500,000 (about N79.15 million) through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to support the government’s response to recent measles outbreak across Nigeria.

    The donation was announced in Lagos when a delegation of UNICEF, led by its Country Representative, Ms. Jean Gough, visted the foundation’s president, Alhaji Aliko Dangote.

    Gough hailed the foundation for its gesture.

    She said: “Public/private sector interventions, such as these in the health and other sectors, including water and early childhood development, are the way forward for Nigeria to improve the well-being of Nigerian children.”

    The grant is a major contribution to Federal Government’s fight against measles, which is among the leading causes of child deaths in Nigeria.

    Dangote said: “We have a common synergy with UNICEF in the areas of health, education and nutrition and we hope that our efforts will encourage even more private sector engagement with on-going efforts to improve the well-being of Nigerians.”

  • Cholera, measles imminent in flood-ravaged areas – NEMA

    The National Emergency Management Agency has raised the alarm over a possible outbreak of epidemics in flood-ravaged states in the country.

    NEMA Coordinator, Abuja Operations Office, Ishaya Chonoko, listed the water borne diseases that could infect the people as cholera, Lassa fever, measles and other skin diseases.

    He spoke on Tuesday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, at a-two day sensitization and awareness raising programme on cerebro-spinal meningitis and other flood related diseases organized by NEMA for the people of the state.

    He said the agency’s fear was borne out of, “the fact that the flood waters had contaminated other natural sources of water in the various communities.”

    “The usage of this contaminated water by the people for drinking, bathing, washing due to shortage of potable water can lead to outbreaks,” he said.