In June, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu approved N10 billion in emergency intervention funding to strengthen Nigeria's Ebola preparedness, along with a separate N21.2 million per-state disbursement under the State Outbreak Investigation and Response Fund. Three months later, there is no public breakdown of how the N10 billion has been spent. Checks at airports and isolation facilities suggest the preparedness gap the money was meant to close is still there. One traveler, Habebat Ajayi, completed Nigeria's health declaration form but found that the information was not used upon arrival at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.
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