Bill Gates to Fund Nigeria's repayment of $76m polio facility

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Channel: Viable Tv · 2018 · News & Politics

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Nigeria has authorised Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to start the repayment of $76m polio eradication facility to Japan.

The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, made this known in Abuja on Tuesday when she received a delegation of Japanese House of Councillors Parliamentarians.

The minister said that the authority to trigger repayment was given to Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation following the eradication of polio in the country.

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