The crippling effect of the coronavirus has been felt not only in Nigeria alone but the world over, as the coronavirus razed through economies destroying the lives and livelihoods of individuals. No doubt, society’s poorest and most vulnerable people have been hit the hardest as the lockdown rendered them helpless with little or no means […]

A vast majority of people have been hit devastatingly by the coronavirus pandemic, most especially the vulnerable whom disruption to their daily livelihood has a huge and significant impact on their ability to meet their most basic needs. As a way of cushioning the effect of the coronavirus, the Coalition Against COVID-19, CACOVID, has rolled […]

…Also provides N100 million flood relief support to Kebbi govt BUA Group has donated an additional sum of N350 million to CACOVID (the CBN-led Private Sector Coalition on COVID-19) bringing to N1.35billion its total donation to CACOVID. In another development, BUA also announced the donation of N100million to Kebbi State government to support victims of […]

By Peter Egwuatu The Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID), a private sector-led initiative against the coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic has said it will distribute food palliatives to about 1.7 million vulnerable households across Nigeria. This was even as the group said it will raise more awareness as well as distribute face and nose masks to Nigerians to […]

By Femi Bolaji The private sector Coalition Against COVID-19, CACOVID, Tuesday handed over food items worth millions of Naira to Taraba state government for onward distribution to 26,000 households in the state. The food items according to CACOVID were provided from the sum gathered by the body from the organised private sector, to help state […]

Nigeria’s Private Sector led Coalition Against COVID-19, CACOVID, yesterday formally announced the flag-off of a nationwide distribution of multi-billion naira food palliative and other relief items to mitigate the adverse effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic on vulnerable Nigerians. 

Nigeria’s Private Sector led Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) today formally announced the flag-off of a nationwide distribution of N23 billion food palliative and other relief items to mitigate the adverse effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic on vulnerable Nigerians. 

The private sector-led Coalition against COVID-19 (CACOVID) has donated N1.4 billion worth of medical supplies and additional 26,400 test kits sufficient to set up six fully functional COVID-19 medical laboratories in the fight against the pandemic. Presenting the test kits and medical equipment at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Lagos office, the MD/ CEO, […]

As part of its commitment to complement the Federal Government efforts in combatting coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic in the country, the private sector-led Coalition against COVID-19 (CACOVID), yesterday donated testing equipment worth N1.4 billion to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC.

With recent measures by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and individual state governments’ efforts to ease the nationwide lockdown, which will lead to the full re-opening of the economy, fear of a spike in the numbers of people infected through community spread has become more pronounced as people in rural communities see themselves as distant from the reality of contracting the dreaded coronavirus disease