It said the recovered loans are from the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme and the bank’s traditional loans.
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An online newspaper, The Gazette, had claimed that the agency’s “flagship Anchor Borrowers’ Programme” and its Chief Executive, Aliyu Abdulhameed, had been enmeshed in endemic graft, which has all but run down the commercial agriculture scheme.
Emefiele gave the charge in Zauro, Kebbi State on Tuesday during the flag-off of the 2020 wet season harvest aggregation and 2020 dry season input distribution under the CBN-Rice Farmers’ Association of Nigeria Anchor Borrowers’ Programme as part of the fifth anniversary of the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme.
The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, made this known at the 5th anniversary of ABP at Birnin Kebbi on Tuesday.
The anticipated release follows moves made by the CBN, working with the Nigeria Customs Service, in the last quarter of 2020, to facilitate import waivers to four agro-processing companies to import 262,000 tonnes of maize to bridge the shortfall in production and augment local production.
The Bank also plans to fund the value chains of nine commodities to the tune of N432 billion in the 2020 wet season.
The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria, Niger State chapter on Saturday said the Central Bank of Nigeria has approved the participation of 12,000 members in the 2019 Anchor Borrowers Programme.
We intend to sustain the pace of those consultations as this would act as barometer for measuring the progress being made in the implementation of our policies. Our assessment of the outcome of that deliberation shows that with concerted efforts, the challenges facing the country are easily surmountable
He said the implementation of the Treasury Single Account reduced corruption in the civil service and enabled government to track its finances at all times
The Federal Government, under its Anchor Borrowers’ Programme on Thursday, distributed fertilisers, seeds and inputs to 4,671 farmers in Borno for 2019 cropping season.
The North East Commodity Association has urged the Federal Government to intervene in purchasing grains harvested by farmers under the Anchor Borrowers Programme, to ensure its sustainability.
The Central Bank of Nigeria says it has so far cumulatively disbursed N174.48 billion through 19 financial institutions under its Anchor Borrowers Programme since 2015.
I think Nigeria has officially instituted deception, lies, stealing, fraud and corruption as official governance models. Time shall tell where this all ends
The Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, dismissed the report when he addressed State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja
Alhaji Sadiq Deware, National President, NECAS, disclosed to News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja, that the loan is for a period of one year at a single digit of 9 per cent.
No fewer than nine million yam seedlings are to be distributed to yam farmers across the country under the CBN’s Anchor Borrowers Programme, the Technical Committee on Nigeria Yam Export says.
Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said this on Monday in Abuja, while speaking to newsmen on the achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in the past three years.
Ezekiel Ogbinko, Chairman, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria, Bayelsa State chapter, disclosed this in Yenagoa on Friday while flagging off the second phase of the programme for the 2018 farming season
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who gave the assurance at a media briefing in Lagos on Monday, said “the country has never been closer to self-sufficiency in rice, a national staple, than now”.
Dignitaries and government functionaries from every nook and cranny of Nigeria were at the occasion to witness the achievement that admits no comparison in the history of agriculture in Borno State and Northern Nigeria at large