The Nigeria Private
Sector Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) has realised N21.588billion towards
the fight against COVID-19.
This was made known
on Monday by Isaac Okorafor, Director, Communications of the Central Bank of
Nigeria (CBN).
A document he signed
noted that the CBN and Aliko Dangote were so far the highest contributors with
N2billion each.
Folorunsho Alakija
(Famfa Oil) Mike Adenuga (Globacom) and Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation
(NDIC) donated N1billion each.
Abdulsamad Rabiu
(BUA Sugar Refinery), Segun Agbaje (GTBank), Tony Elumelu (UBA), Oba Otudeko
(First Bank), Jim Ovia (Zenith Bank), Herbert Wigwe (Access Bank) and Femi
Otedola of Amperion Power Distribution gave N1billion each.
Deji Adeleke of
Pacific Holding Ltd contributed N500million.
Union Bank Plc,
Sterling Bank Plc, Standard Chartered Bank, Stanbic IBTC, Citi Bank Nigeria
Ltd, FCMB, Fidelity Bank, Ecobank, African Steel Mills donated N250 million
each, while Multichoice Nigeria Limited contributed N200 million.
However, the CBN has
advised Nigerians to be wary of cyber criminals taking advantage of the COVID-19
crisis.
It said criminals
try to gain unauthorized access to computers or mobile devices using various
techniques.
This includes
phishing campaigns where the criminals send emails claiming to be from health
bodies like the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control or the World Health
Organisation (WHO).
Another is relief
package scams which come in the form of phone calls asking citizens to provide
their banking details to receive palliatives from government, individuals or
companies.
You could have come out in time to save the innocent souls from scammers.
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