I was very elated and proud when Mr President made the speech during the 2020 annual budget submission to the National Assembly. Months ago, I wrote an article in my weekly column titled; ‘A hungry man is an angry man’.…
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…
‘30,000 petty traders have received TraderMoni loans since after elections’
The TraderMoni scheme and other GEEP micro-credit products (MarketMoni and FarmerMoni) are still very much in operation, Mr. Laolu Akande, the Senior Special Assistant on Media & Publicity to the President (Office of the Vice President), has said. The products…
350,000 beneficiaries receive FG’s MarketMoni interest-free loans nationwide
The Federal Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) MarketMoni scheme has successfully reached over 350,000 micro enterprises in all 36 states of Nigeria, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). This was revealed on Thursday, at the Kano State’s edition of…