Nigeria, EU Enter N20b Pact To Develop N'East - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 30, 2019
Nigeria and the European Union, EU have signed a fifty million Euros, about nineteen point six billion naira, Memorandum of Understanding, MoU to support the development of the North-East ravaged insurgency.
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The latestpact, signed by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Geoffrey Onyeama, andEU Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica onthe sidelines of the seventh Tokyo International Conference on AfricanDevelopment, TICAD7 in Japan, brings the bloc’s intervention in the country tofive hundred and six two million Euros for 2014-2020.
PresidentBuhari, who expressed gratitude to the European nations for the gesture,described as sad the situation in internally displaced camps. He called forfurther aid to improve youth education with a view to taming poverty in theregion.