Speaking on the newly-launched agriculture policy of the Buhari administration during an NTA Network News monitored on Monday evening in Abuja, Oredipe said the donor community was initially apprehensive on what will become of the policy in the sector as the government of President Muhammadu Buhari was not only new, but also of a different political party from the preceding administration
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The Bank, in a statement by its Task Team Leader, Dr. Adetunji Oredipe, said it will hold its Fadama Implementation Support Mission from June 10 to 27 across eight states of the Federation in conjunction with the Federal Ministries of Finance and Agriculture.
He said: “The project by the World Bank is aimed at supporting the intention of the Federal Government to deal with the situation in the North East through food security and livelihood
Olukayode Majekodunmi, the Deputy Director of SERAP, said in a statement on Thursday that the World bank had requested for additional time to respond to SERAP’S request
Speaking at a meeting with the visiting Managing Director of the World Bank, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, President Buhari said the repatriation of the additional $320 million in Switzerland, which has been identified as illegally taken from Nigeria under the late General Sani Abacha administration, will help to ease the current economic hardship facing the country
Adeosun, who was a speaker at a panel discussion on Africa, titled: “Sub-Saharan Africa: Just a Rough Patch,” said Nigeria is adapting to its new realities and it is implementing fiscal policies to steer the country back on track for stable growth with a diversified economy
The global partners, who had signed a tripartite agreement to facilitate the assessment, are now expected to support the Federal Government in the financing of the North East reconstruction, including an offer by the World Bank to make available $800 million towards the rebuilding
In a just concluded Article IV Consultation with Nigeria on March 30, the IMF Executive Board welcomed renewed effort to adopt legislation to spur investment in the oil and gas sector and promote policies to strengthen governance of the sector
He said: “The World Bank commends the move by the government and will put in some programmes and assistance in addition to what is already on ground
He said: “The amount is earmarked to finance a seven-year infrastructure development and other components starting with five states in the Northern region as pilot projects
He said: ”The project is also aimed at improving the issue of equity in education as well as ensuring uniformity in access for all to education
He said: “A lot of the problem is tax administration and if the government is collecting all the taxes that it should be collecting, then we won’t have this type of crisis
Oshiomhole disclosed this in Benin during a Colloquium organised by the State Government to round off activities marking its seventh year in office
Speaking on Wednesday at a three-day retreat for members of the State Executive Council and Permanent Secretaries, holding at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja to brainstorm and re-strategise on raising the bar on governance in the state, with the theme: “Finishing Well,” two top executives of the World Bank, Gloria Joseph Raji and Dr. Khwima Nthara, said the Bank trusts the Edo State Government to use the fund properly as it only provides support to governments the Bank trusts to use its funds for development results
Yari said the meeting was to let governors understand what the agencies and Development Partners were doing to enable them know how to assist them in the interest of the nation and the people
The President of the World Bank, Jim Young Kim, made the announcement in a statement on Friday
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Ojoko said the programme, which was for a period of 12 months for each batch of beneficiaries, was geared toward poverty reduction as well as creating employment for the teeming youths in the state
Domestic reforms aimed at improving cogent primary healthcare indicators in the country and engagements with multilateral funding agencies and donors fructified the credit. In 2012, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg of Norway and Chelsea Clinton, in her capacity as Board Member of Clinton Health Access Initiative, arrived in Nigeria to join President Goodluck Jonathan and (then) Honourable Minister of State for Health, Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate, to launch the Saving One Million Lives initiative with support from CHAI
He said the effort was also aimed at sustaining routine immunisation for children and women of reproductive age, adding that the programme was approved on Friday in Washington DC, US