President Bola Tinubu, GCFR, has suspended all administered programmes by the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA). This is further to the ongoing investigation of alleged malfeasance in the management of the agency and its programmes. All four Programmes administered…
Umar Farouq kicks off onboarding of 5,000 independent monitors for social investment programmes
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Sadiya Umar Farouq has flagged off the onboarding of 5,000 independent monitors for the various National Social Investment Programmes (NSIP) The training programme, according to a statement by the minister’s…
Kwara understudies TraderMoni to fight poverty
The Kwara State government is understudying the TraderMoni programme of the federal government to extend soft loans to traders and reduce mass poverty in the state. “On Friday, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq visited the Abuja headquarters of the Government Enterprise and…
Read the full text of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s speech at 11th Bola Tinubu Colloquium
LONG READ We are here for the 11th edition of the Bola Tinubu Colloquium. This is a yearly development gathering where we try to question and interrogate some of the difficult questions on economic and social development, not just in…
TraderMoni: OBJ is either ignorant or mischievous – Presidency
The statement purportedly attributed to former president Olusegun Obasanjo regarding Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, and the Federal Government’s TraderMoni microcredit scheme if, indeed true and accurate, is most unfortunate, according to the Senior Special Assistant to the President on…
Attack on TraderMoni is on hard-working Nigerians, says VP spokesperson
The call by some individuals to suspend TraderMoni, one of the microcredit schemes of the Buhari administration’s Social Investment Programme (SIP), is both unbelievable and unfortunate, Mr. Laolu Akande, spokesperson to the Vice President, has said. Akande, who was reacting…
We will find you and invest in you, Osinbajo vows (Vanguard)
Following the distribution of ten thousand Naira loan (N10K), from the huge money Nigeria recovered from the Abacha loot which was approved by the federal government to give to small and medium scale business owners in the country, Vice President…