Lagos Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, have joined forces with Global Citizen, an international advocacy organisation, to tackle climate change, COVID-19 and rising poverty in the country.

They made this pledge at the Global Citizen Live concert held in Lagos over the weekend.

The concert, organised by Global Citizen, was held simultaneously in Lagos, Paris, Seoul, New York, among other cities of the world to create awareness on global challenges and how to tackle them.

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