The World Bank Group (WBG) approved on Wednesday seven projects to support Nigeria’s investment in nutrition, access to electricity, states’ fiscal transparency, polio eradication, women’s economic empowerment, public finance and national statistics and reducing vulnerability to soil erosion. This is even as the multilateral institution also extended its Country Partnership Strategy for Nigeria until June […]
L-R: Professor Hafiz Abubakar, Deputy Governor, Kano State; Bongiwe Kunene, Executive Director at the Board of the World Bank representing Angola, Nigeria and South Africa; Mallam Adamu Adamu, Minister of Education; Rachid Benmessaoud, Country Director, World Bank Nigeria at the Launch of the World Development Report on Education in Abuja today
The World Bank Group and Federal Ministries of Finance and Education today co-launched the World Development Report (WDR) 2018: ‘Learning to Realize Education’s Promise’ at the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Abuja A statement by the World Bank Group by its Nigeria Office on the report indicated that it specifically canvassed greater measurement, action on […]
The World Bank’s Nigeria Country Director, Mr Rachid Benmessaoud, has disclosed that the bank’s support through the International Development Association (IDA) to fragile states, including Nigeria, increased substantially over the past year, rising to 14 billion dollars