United Nations (UN) has donated a $6 million fund in support of victims of recent flood in Maiduguri, Borno State capital.
Gatekeepers News reports that UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mohammed Fall announced this through a statement released on Tuesday.
Fall revealed that a joint mission comprising UN agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), alongside Nigeria Red Cross Society visited Maiduguri over the weekend. 
The coordinator said the team met with people who had been impacted, many of whom had already been displaced multiple times by conflict and insecurity in the area.
He said, “We and our partners are providing them with hot meals, we are facilitating air drops of food in hard-to-reach areas cut off by flood waters, and we are also trucking in water.”
“We are also providing water and sanitation hygiene services and water purification tablets to stem disease outbreaks.”
“This is in addition to supplying hygiene and dignity kits to women and girls, as well as emergency health and shelter services.”
Fall added that the staff of UN Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs were also working closely with donors to secure additional funding.
