Aso Villa Reads for 06/07/2021
Every day, we bring you the best stories that the Media is reporting about the Government of Nigeria
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said Nigeria has created and saved over two million jobs through the implementation of the Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP) which began in June last year. Osinbajo stated this yesterday at a virtual meeting of the Economic Sustainability Committee. According to him, although the target of N2.3 trillion estimated to be spent under the plan has not been achieved just as yet, the federal government appropriation part of that total being N500 billion has been completely released by the end of May, making it possible to attain several objectives of the ESP directly supporting a few million Nigerians.[This Day]
The Federal Government, Monday, commenced training for selected officers of Grade Level 08–14 ahead of their conversion to the planning cadre of the federal civil service. The training which is expected to last for two weeks at the Public Service Institute of Nigeria, PSIN, Kubwa-Abuja, commenced with a total number of 800 officers, at the end of which 250 will be selected for another intensive training preparatory to their conversion to the planning cadre by the Federal Civil Service Commission. Declaring the event open, Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, narrated how the service settled for the initial 800 officers for the exercise, describing the selection as “rigorous and competitive.” [Vanguard]
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Tuesday, July 13, 2021, unveil Team Nigeria’s uniform for the delayed Tokyo Olympics and handover the contingent to Nigeria Olympic Committees (NOC). The first batch of the contingent will depart the country on Tuesday, July 6, for Kisarazu city in Japan for the final leg of their preparations. Minister for Youth and Sports Development Mr Sunday Dare, disclosed this on Tuesday while bidding farewell to the first batch of the contingent inside Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja. He said as tradition, President Buhari will unveil the official Team Nigeria’s uniform for the Games during the presentation of the contingent before bidding the team farewell.[Leadership]
As part of efforts to provide affordable homes for its officers and men in the face of daunting COVID–19 downtown, the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has launched a 5000-unit housing scheme in Abuja. The chairman of MANZ Construction Company Limited, the firm executing the project, Adamu Ibn Adamu, said the company is providing 5000 units of different apartments for NIS Personnel in all cadres and they are intensifying efforts to deliver the Phase 1 comprising 800 units before February 2022. [Leadership]
The Federal Government, on Monday, disclosed that it is targeting to feed 14 million school children under the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) by 2023. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, stated this in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, during a Stakeholders Engagement on Enumeration of Beneficiaries and Scaling up of the programme. Farouq, who was represented by a Director in the Ministry, AbdulRaman Babatunde Jaji, said, over nine million pupils benefited from the one free nutritious meal a day nationwide during the last session. She added that the government would be targeting additional five million pupils by 2023.[Tribune]
The Federal Government, on Monday, issued letters to 150 people empowered to monitor its Social Reinvestment Programme in Anambra State.The government also distributed a total of 150 computer tablets to them. Nigerian Tribune gathered that the independent monitors are expected to work from June 1, 2021, to May 31, 2022, with a monthly stipend of N30,000 amounting to N54 million in one year. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia Sadiya Umar, who flagged off the distribution in Awka, explained that the beneficiaries would monitor the progress of the Social Reinvestment Programme such as N-POWER, National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP), amongst others in their respective Council Areas of residents.[Tribune]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday disclosed plans to write to the universities to begin to conduct a kind of entrepreneurship development competition programme. Afterwards, the CBN would develop a framework under which this can be done. The essence of this is to stimulate entrepreneurial skills among youth. “Given our population growth rate and a large number of our graduating students, we need to begin to see how SMEs can be incubated because it is from SMEs that develop into large corporates and that is how they become great companies of the future,” said Godwin Emefiele, governor of the CBN. [Business Day]
To subscribe to our Newsletter, click HERE.
