UN says the intervention is necessitated by the resurgence in violence that continued to ravage communities and the extraordinary challenges from the COVID-19 in the North East. The UN System in Nigeria, alongside partner NGOs, are collectively appealing for $1.08 billion to provide urgent aid to 7.8 million vulnerable people in the North East region of the country.
The UN says the funding needed was less than $12 a month to save someone's life.
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