International donors promise to give over 200 billion Naira to help prevent famine to Northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad

   Efforts to return normalcy to Northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad region received a boost yesterday, after international donors promised to give over 200 billion Naira to help prevent famine.

   The money, to be spread over three years was pledged at a humanitarian conference in Oslo, Norway.

   Co-hosted by Nigeria, Norway and Germany, the conference had sought for 1 billion Dollars in emergency funding to prevent famine in the region.

   Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama told the conference that the sheer magnitude of the humanitarian crisis which cuts across Nigeria and countries contiguous to the Lake Chadarea, was one of the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.

   Meanwhile, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’Brien says further contributions are still expected later in the year from the UK and the US, while two other unnamed countries had indicated to pledge substantial contributions.