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She said the expenditure represents part of the N8.26 trillion spent on capital projects, debt servicing and payment of salaries and pensions in 2020.
The Coronavirus pandemic broke out in China in 2019 but Nigeria recorded its first case in February 2020. Nigeria infection cases have already scaled the 100,000 marks.
Although Ahmed, at a virtual public presentation of the approved 2021 budget, did not give a breakdown of how that money was expended, the Federal Government had initially claimed it introduced measures to curb the spread of the virus including the provision of palliatives to cushion its economic effects on Nigerians.
The minister did not also state if donations from well-meaning Nigerians and international donors when the pandemic broke out were also captured in the figure she presented.