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COVID-19: Fayemi inaugurates State CARES steering committee On By Rotimi Ojomoyela, Ado-Ekiti Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has inaugurated a nine-man committee to give policy direction to the implementation of the State COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (CARES) programme The programme which was designed to support the livelihood of the poor and vulnerable households in the State, is a jointly developed World Bank-supported programme aimed at mitigating the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the socio-economic wellbeing of the people. Governor Fayemi while inaugurating...

•Project Funded Through World Bank Facility Lagos State Government has rolled out a $20 million Coronavirus (COVID-19) Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (Lagos CARES) Programme to support livelihood for poor and vulnerable households and to expand food security services in the State. At the State House, Alausa, on Wednesday, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu launched the social intervention project that is focused on offering safety net to residents whose means of livelihood had been disrupted by the impacts of COVID-19 and also to building resilience of the State. The programme, which will b...

FBR, World Bank agree to enhance cooperation Discuss difficulties being encountered while implementing reform interventions APP April 18, 2021 ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Chairman Asim Ahmad and World Bank Country Director for Pakistan Najy Benhassine have agreed to enhance bilateral cooperation between the two institutions. In a meeting on Saturday, the two heads discussed World Bank’s ‘Pakistan Raises Revenue’ program worth $400 million, which is aimed at domestic resource mobilisation through the automation of tax collection processes and simplification of tax complian...

FBR chairman meets WB country director National April 17, 2021 ISLAMABAD: The World Bank’s Country Director for Pakistan, Najy Benhassine, called on FBR Chairman Asim Ahmad on Friday. It was an introductory meeting following Asim Ahmad’s recent appointment as the chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue. The two officials discussed the World Bank-sponsored reforms programme ‘Pakistan Raises Revenue’, which is a $400 million programme for domestic resource mobilisation through the automation of tax collection processes and the simplification of tax compliance procedures. The FBR chai...

Share Cross River State ranks top three together with Kogi and Sokoto states for the State Fiscal Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability (SFTAS) program of the World Bank. Speaking in Calabar, the Commissioner for Finance, Asuquo Ekpenyong Jnr., revealed during a press briefing at his office, that the State government had achieved a total of $20.4m in grants from the World Bank-funded SFTAS programme of the Federal Government of Nigeria. The commissioner also revealed that the state planned to inject the World Bank SFTAS grant into the 2021 budget to arrest youth restiveness. Mr Ekpe...