Browsing: World Bank

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

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

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

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