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COVID-19: Osinbajo Heads Economic Sustainability Committee

Laolu Akande/

“The President today constituted an Economic Sustainability Committee he asked me to chair, on how to implement strategies to alleviate sufferings of Nigerians at this time,” Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says at 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 and growing the non-oil sector.

Members are Minister of Finance, Budget and Planning; Industry, Trade and Investment; Labour; Petroleum Resources-State; CBN Governor, GMD NNPC, with the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation as Secretary.

The Google Hangout was organized by HACK COVID19 Call Center in Abuja, earlier today.

The HACK COVID19 is a private sector initiative to share solutions, public information and ideas on COVID19 and 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.

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