Najib Sani
The First Lady, Hajiya Aisha Buhari, in collaboration with the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) produced 180,000 face masks for distribution to six northern states of Nigeria as part of efforts aimed at containing the spread of Covid-19 pandemic.
Speaking Wednesday at the training of 15 women who will produce the face masks in Bauchi, the Director-General, National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Nasiru Ladan Argungu, said that the production and distribution of the face masks is being done in collaboration with the pet project of the First Lady.
Argungu, who was represented at the event by the Bauchi state coordinator of the NDE, Ali Lawal Yaya, informed that the benefitting states are Bauchi, Sokoto, Kano, Jigawa, Kebbi and Zamfara.
The NDE boss said each of the six states are expected to produce 20,000 masks and distribute same to their people.
He informed that the face masks are to be sown by women tailors in the benefiting states within one week “since they are at home doing nothing.”
“That is why we came up with this to engage them instead for us to go to the market to buy the masks,” Argungu stated.
