{"id":206367,"date":"2020-04-01T20:03:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T19:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=206367"},"modified":"2020-04-01T20:04:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T19:04:04","slug":"coronavirus-details-of-meeting-between-osinbajo-gov-el-rufai-fayemi-obaseki-atiku-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=206367","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Details of meeting between Osinbajo, Gov. El-Rufai, Fayemi, Obaseki, Atiku, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Special Committee of the National Economic Council on COVID-19 held its second meeting on Tuesday as it continues its task of coordinating the Federal and State governments\u2019 responses to the impact of COVID-19: on Nigerians<br \/>\nThe NE\u00c7 Committee is working towards developing additional measures to alleviate the challenges being faced by Nigerians because of the implications of the global pandemic in the country.<br \/>\nPresent alongside the Vice President at the meeting held via videoconference anchored from the Presidential Villa are Governors Kayode Fayemi, Ekiti; Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, Kaduna; Abdullahi Sule, Nasarawa; Mohammed Abubakar, Jigawa; Godwin Obaseki, Edo; David Umahi, Ebonyi; Dapo Abiodun, Ogun; and Atiku Bagudu, Kebbi.<br \/>\nAccording to Laolu Akande, the VP\u2019s Spokesman, the meeting was also attended by the Finance Minister, Hajiya Zainab Ahmed and the Director-General of the Budget Office, Mr. Ben Akabueze among several other top officials.<br \/>\nThe NEC Committee received the report of its Technical Working Group which proposed an array of policy options and recommendations on how federal, state and local governments can bring relief to the people and take other adequate measures in containing and responding to the adverse economic effects of the pandemic.<br \/>\nSpeaking at the meeting, the Vice President emphasized the importance of the assignment and the urgency required, asking that public enlightenment and sensitization on the seriousness of the pandemic should be further intensified at all government levels so that more and more Nigerians would become aware of the compelling and critical dimensions of the situation.<br \/>\nHe assured the governors that the FG is already packaging further resources for a comprehensive economic response to alleviate the challenges of the pandemic, support the States and provide succor to Nigerians in a timely and effective manner. He disclosed that the newly created Economic Sustainability Committee, ESW, constituted by the President will also be meeting this week to start its work and respond to the situation appropriately.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Committee of the National Economic Council on COVID-19 held its second meeting on Tuesday as it continues its task of coordinating the Federal and State governments\u2019 responses to the impact of COVID-19: on Nigerians The NE\u00c7 Committee is working towards developing additional measures to alleviate the challenges being faced by Nigerians because of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,218,6339,10616,1187],"class_list":["post-206367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-kaduna","tag-kayode-fayemi","tag-nasir-el-rufai-2","tag-yemi-osinbajo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}