FG Gets N1.21bn EU, Japan Grants To Fight Insurgency

The Federal Government has received two grants totalling N1.2bn from the European Union and the Government of Japan to tackle insurgency in the North-East as well as to improve the level of disaster management in the country.

The agreement for the release of the grant was signed in Abuja between the Federal Government and representatives from the EU and the government of Japan.

Minister of National Planning, Dr. Abubakar Sulaiman, signed on behalf of the Federal Government while the Head of the European Union Delegation to Nigeria, Mr. Michel Arrion, and the Charge the Affairs of Japan, Mr. Masaya Otsuka, signed on behalf of the EU and Japan respectively, Punch reports.