The Federal Government (FG), in furtherance of efforts to curb incidents of poverty in the country, has approved N400 billion under the National Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy (NPRGS). Initiatives covered under this strategy include the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme, Conditional Cash Transfer, Farmer Money, and Market Money. The approval for 2022 was made known by the Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, who spoke with State House correspondents last week after a meeting of the National Steering Committee of the NPRGS at Aso Rock in Abuja, to review the implementation of what was approved in the budget. The…
Author: Elvis Eromosele
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Apapa Area Command, has announced that it generated N522.4 billion in the first half of 2022. The Area Controller, Comptroller Malanta Yusuf, made this known at a news conference in Lagos recently. Mr Yusuf said that the figure showed a significant increase of N156 billion or 42.54 per cent when compared to the N366.5 billion collected in the corresponding period of 2021. According to him, “This feat was made possible because of our officers’ resilience in ensuring identified revenue leakages have been mitigated while sustaining the level of compliance by the importers/stakeholders in…
Aquaculture and fisheries management specialists have called on the government at all levels to emplace and implement the Food and Agricultural Organisation’s (FAO) Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines). The guidelines will also boost fish productivity and will help to close the 2.5 million metric tonnes supply deficit. These were disclosed during a three-day hybrid national stakeholders’ advocacy and capacity-building workshop on the implementation of the SS guidelines in Nigeria held at Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, Lagos. The workshop was organised by LASU, in collaboration with the…
The Lagos State government says it is committed to increasing retail trading in the state to over 60 per cent in order to ensure it leverages the Nigerian market demand as it aims to become the export hub for fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs) and exports into West Africa. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Lagos state governor, stated this during the 8th edition of the EU-Nigeria Business Forum (EUNBF) in Lagos, themed “Nigeria and the New Economy”. Reiterating the state government’s effort to improve the ease of doing business in Nigeria’s commercial capital through infrastructure development, Sanwo-Olu noted that there is a need…
In line with its vision of growing the economy, Access Bank of Nigeria Plc says it is planning to train about 500,000 players in the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) space, aside from assisting them with loans where necessary. The Deputy Managing Director of the Bank, Chizoma Okoli, made the disclosure in Abuja at the 5th National MSME Award held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. According to her, the bank has since unveiled the Access Bank SMEs zone, a robust blueprint designed specifically for supporting the MSMEs, in recognition of their strategic place in the economy. She revealed that…
The Youth Empowerment Foundation (YEF), a non-governmental organisation, has targeted empowering about 12,000 girls through different life skills this year across Nigeria. The Foundation also held its stakeholder’s meeting to review the implementation of the GOAL project in Lagos State to outline strategies for the programmes in 2022. Among those that attended were representatives, principals, and teachers from secondary schools in Lagos, Lagos State Ministry of Youth and social development, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, Education district IV, Yaba, Lagos Sports Commission, Surulere Local Government Area. At the stakeholder meeting, Oluwaseunfunmi Arasi, monitoring and evaluation manager of the foundation,…