Tag: Grant
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Creativity Day: FG grants 5 innovators N10m seed fund
The Federal Government on Wednesday in Abuja granted N10 million as seed fund to five innovators that emerged winners in the World Creativity and Innovation Day (WCID) challenge. The five startup winners emerged among over 800 entries made for the challenge and received N2 million each. The winners were Muhammed Bature for Schoola Limited, Jeremiah…
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Nigeria receives $15m grant for safe school reopening
The Federal Ministry of Education says Nigeria has received 15 million dollars response grant from the Global Partnership on Education (GPE) for COVID-19 safe school reopening across the country. Hajia Binta Abdulkadir, Director, Basic and Secondary Education in the ministry, said this on Wednesday in Bauchi, at a Cluster Mobilisation and Sensitisation Meetings on COVID-19…
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UNILAG VC wins €38,000 Global Biodiversity Information Facility grant
The Vice- Chancellor of University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, and another botanist, Dr Temitope Onuminya, have won 2021 Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) grants. Mrs Nonye Oguama, a Principal Assistant Registrar, Corporate Affairs of the institution, made the disclosure in a statement on Saturday in Lagos. According to Oguama, the awards are part of…
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Google earmarks $25m grant for girls in Africa
Google.org on Monday announced that it had earmarked $25m grant funding for its new Global Impact Challenge (GIC) for Women and Girls in Africa. Juliet Ehimuan, Country Director, Google Nigeria, said at a virtual event to mark the International Women’s Day (IWD) that Google was also reinforcing its commitment to the empowerment of women and…
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36 states, FCT to access World Bank’s $750m loan, grant soon – FG
The Federal Government has disclosed that 36 state governments and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, will soon access World Bank’s $750 million loan and grant facility. This was made known by the Minister of Finance, Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, while addressing the 7th Community of Practice (CoP) made up of State Commissioners of Planning and Budgeting,…
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Nigerian-American dancer awarded $625k MacArthur ‘genius’ grant
Rising Nigerian dancer, Okwui Okpokwasili, was among the 25 individuals from across the world to be awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellow. The prominent fellowship is popularly known as “genius grants”. Okpokwasili, 46, joins other Nigerian creatives like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Njideka Crosby Akunyili, who have received the award in the past. A multi-disciplinary performer…
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FG pays N5, 000 monthly grant to 10,623 vulnerable persons in Kaduna
A total of 10,623 extremely poor and vulnerable persons in Kaduna State have been selected to receive N5, 000 monthly under the Federal Government Conditional Cash Transfer Scheme. The beneficiaries, whose age range from 25-90 were selected from nine local government areas in the state. Those selected represents 30 percent of the extremely poor and…
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FG approves extra N420 million grant for Nollywood
The Federal Government says it has released N420.2 million to the Nigeria film industry popularly called Nollywood to improve and support aspiring practitioners. According to a statement issued by the Deputy Director of Information, Federal Ministry of Finance, Patricia Deworitshe, on Friday in Abuja, the money, which is the second payment to the sector, will…
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FG approves $1.3bn take-off grant for Nigeria Development Bank
The Federal Executive Council has approved a 1.3 billion dollars loan credit facility for the commencement of the Development Bank of Nigeria. The approval came on the heels of a memo submitted by the Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun seeking council’s ratification on the loan’s request. Adeosun, who briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of…