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NITDA, USAID Mull Collaboration To Tackle Nigeria’s Food Insecurity

The Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa, has expressed the readiness of the agency to partner the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other relevant stakeholders to address Nigeria’s food insecurity challenge. Inuwa made this remark when he received representatives from USAID, led by the Senior Digital Advisor […]

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Nigeria To Extend Clean Energy Access To 17.5Mn People – W/Bank

The World Bank on Thursday announced that it had approved the Nigeria Distributed Access through Renewable Energy Scale-up (DARES) project, which is financed by an International Development Association (IDA) credit of $750 million and will leverage over $1 billion of private capital and significant parallel financing from development partners, including $100 million from the Global […]

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USAID Commits New $3Mn To African Water Facility

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has committed $3 million to the African Water Facility (AWF) to support the preparation of water and sanitation investment projects in the continent through the provision of grants and technical assistance to African countries and regional economic communities. The African Development Bank (AfDB), which gave this hint […]

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USAID Approves $10.6Mn For Nigeria Under 2021 DOA Pact

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced an additional $10.6 million in development assistance to continue support for the goals outlined in a 2021 Development Objectives Assistance Agreement signed between the U.S. and Nigerian governments. The U.S’ agency stated that most of the new funding would be used to finance the Nigerian […]