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World Bank Launches Massive Solar Energy Programme In Nigeria

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The International Finance Corporation, IFC, a member of the World Bank group in collaboration with the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) is facilitating a massive solar energy programme, targeting Small and Medium Scale businesses across the country.

Under the initiative, the Financial Institution with the DFID would deploy off-grid and embedded solar systems in commercial and industrial sectors in Nigeria.

Providing insight into the project, country manager IFC, Eme Essien Lore, at a media briefing in Lagos, yesterday, said a number of financial institutions in Nigeria would be given incentives to provide finances for the programme.

She said studies would be conducted to fully understand the challenges that had stalled similar initiative in the past.

Lore stated that IFC is leading an initiative, creating and facilitating solutions to help increase access to energy at the home and corporate levels in Nigeria.

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El-Rufai Launches Free School Feeding Programme

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Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai on Monday launched the much awaited free  school feeding programme for pupils of primary schools.

Governor El-Rufai, who tested the food himself at the Aliyu Makama Road Primary School, Barnawa, said the state government would be providing a meal for 1.5m pupils across all the primary schools in the state.

He noted that the school feeding was to ensure that every child had nine years of free, decent basic education, no matter the income level of their parents.

The governor thanked Vice-President’s office for providing technical support and the commitment to reimburse the Kaduna State Government up to 60 per cent of the cost of the school feeding programme.

According to him, the school feeding programme is directly creating 17, 000 jobs for catering vendors, each of whom will need to employ workers to help them deliver food to the pupils.

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Finance Minister Launches Cost Cutting Programme

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The Minister of Finance in Nigeria, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, has inaugurated a government spending control team called ‘The Efficiency Unit’ (E-Unit).

Mrs Adeosun on Monday launched the programme to monitor and cut recurrent expenditure across Federal government ministries.

She said the Director at the Debt Management Office, Mrs Patricia Oniha, would be the leader of the unit.

The Efficiency Unit will also assist the government in identifying opportunities to reduce wasteful spending by public office holders, she said.

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