Nigeria’s Federal Government approves N45.08bn (reported as N45bn) for a national biosecurity and disease surveillance system covering five international airports, aiming to detect and contain emerging infectious diseases.
The announcement is made by the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Ali Pate, after a Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu. Outlets say the system is intended to strengthen Nigeria’s health security at borders and improve coordination across agencies involved in monitoring disease threats.
Coverage details the airports included: Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt, and Enugu. One report adds that implementation is planned through a 20-year public-private partnership with the BioHealth Consortium and references surveillance and sampling methods such as aircraft wastewater surveillance, air and surface sampling, and specialised pathogen detection systems. Across the outlets, the emphasis stays on the approval amount and the airport-based biosecurity capability, with limited variation in core facts.
