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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $600,000 (about N900 million) to support flood victims in Borno State and for the resuscitation of health and agriculture initiatives in Nigeria.

The Foundation announced the donation while meeting with Nigeria’s Vice President Kashim Shettima on the sidelines of the 79th United Nations General Assembly in New York, a statement issued Thursday by Stanley Nkwocha, a Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu, noted.

“To hasten relief efforts for victims of the devastating floods, as well as for health and agricultural sectors’ reforms, the Nigerian government has secured a $600,000 relief fund and commitments from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,” the statement said.

The statement disclosed that during the meeting led by the Foundation’s Head of Global Development Programme, Christopher Elias, an additional $5 million grant was also approved for Lagos Business School and partners to develop the agricultural economics of industrial cassava.

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