Nigeria senate president Ahmad Lawan asks finance ministry to release N620 million to center for disease control to respond to coronavirus

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Nigeria President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has asked the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, to immediately release the sum of N620m to the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), an amount budgeted for emergency response to the Coronavirus (COVID – 19) outbreak.