President Muhammadu Buhari has asked Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to chair an Economic Sustainability Committee he constituted to implement strategies to alleviate suffering of Nigerians over measures being put in place to combat COVID-19.
Osinbajo spoke on a Google Hangout where young Nigerian tech innovators discussed impact of COVID-19.
The committee is to take care of the economic challenges and fallouts of the pandemic and the restrictions. Besdies developing further palliatives, Committee will also develop a Sustainability Plan repositioning the economy & growing the non-oil sector.
Members are Ministers of Finance, Budget & Planning; Industry, Trade & Investment; Labour; Petroleum Resources-State; CBN Gov, GMD NNPC, with the Office of the Secretary to the Govt of the Federation as Secretary. The Google Hangout was organized by HACK COVID-19 Call Center in Abuja on Monday.
The HACK COVID19 is a private sector initiative to share solutions, public information and ideas on COVID-19 & how public and private sector can collaborate on the response to the pandemic. The Google Hangout was moderated by Ore Disu and other tech innovators participated online.
