Japan has given N18.6 billion in loan to Nigeria to pay for vaccines to be bought through the United Nations Children’s Fund.
The loan, through Japan International Cooperation Agency, is expected repaid in 20 years, with seven years for grace period.
In talks with the National Primary Health Care Development Agency in Abuja, JICA’s chief in Nigeria, Tetsuo Seki said the loan’s agreement was signed last year by finance minister Ngozi Okonjo Iweala and JICA’s leadership.
Seki, who leaves his post in Nigeria late April, said JICA support for immunisation programme in Nigeria in the last 10 years has reached $100m.
NPHCDA executive director, Dr Ado Muhammad, said Nigeria remained grateful for Japan’s assistance in polio eradication and routine immunisation.
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