European Union (EU) and the British Council have taken the war against the COVID-19 pandemic to rural areas in Adamawa State. The campaign will employ a door-to-door communicative system from trained residents using megaphones to reach out to their targeted audiences. The project, public engagement and awareness education on COVID-19 pandemic in Adamawa State, anchored by a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Global Peace Development (GPD) is to train rural dwellers on basic facts and checks against the dreaded coronavirus. The state team lead of Managing Conflict in Northeast Nigeria (MCN), a wing of the British Council, Ahmed Abdulkadir Bello said it is unfortunate that many Nigerians still see the battle against coronavirus as unnecessary. “It is saddening to note that many of our people in Nigeria still see coronavirus as political rather than a pandemic,” Bello said.

Source: The Guardian July 24, 2020 11:48 UTC