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The Government of Lagos State and a religious body, Christ Embassy Church in Lagos, Nigeria have all pledge one million US dollars each to support the victims of the Haiti earthquake that happened last week. Since the earthquake the outpour of sympathy has continued to rise especially among church related organizations in Nigeria.
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Many institutions and individuals across Nigeria are showing brotherly concern to the victims of Haiti earthquake.

“We have been encouraged to donate to a pool of funds that will be sent to Haiti next week” said Akin Owoeye, a member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Nigeria.

The United States branch of the Church made a donation of $50,000 to the earthquake victim last week.

Owoeye said an instruction was passed on to all 7,000 branches of the Church, across the world to make charity donation to Haiti.

Also, the Lagos State Government has opened a Haiti donation venue where items and cash will be collected and sent to Haiti sometime next week.

The Governor, Raji Fashola urged all the members of the House of representative to donate substantially to aid the support of the US, Red Cross and the United Nations in restoring hope to the earthquake ravaged country.

The Governor also added that the government will not only donate cash, it will also send personnel to Haiti.