Tag: TraderMoni
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FG announces return of Tradermoni, conditional cash transfer
The federal government will restart the Tradermoni scheme in November with each beneficiary getting N50,000 to support their business.
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Fed Govt delivers trucks of rice, kicks off TraderMoni
MINISTER of Humanitarian Affairs Disaster Management and Social Development Sadiya Farouq, at the weekend, delivered three trucks of rice to Katsina State as part of COVID-19 palliatives. The palliatives, according to Farouq, is for the less privileged, vulnerable and people with disabilities, to cushion effects of the lockdown. Farouq kicked off disbursement of TraderMoni and…
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Osinbajo responds to reports of suspending ‘TraderMoni tours’ after presidential elections
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has reacted to report making the rounds of the alleged suspension of Trader Moni empowerment scheme. Reports had it that Osinbajo had suspended the scheme after presidential election and has not toured any state to promote Trader Moni in the last one month. Reacting, however, Osinbajo Media Aide, Laolu Akande, debunked…
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Obasanjo’s comments on ‘Tradermoni’ shows he’s ignorant, mischievous – Osinbajo
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has described as unfortunate the attack on the Federal Government’s TraderMoni microcredit scheme by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Prof Osinbajo, who reacted through a statement by his Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, said the former president was misinformed to have described a programme…
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Buhari’s TraderMoni is sophisticated votes buying – Saraki
President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration of using the Trader Moni programme as a ‘sophisticated vote-buying’ plot to win the 2019 presidential election. Trader Moni is one of the government’s initiative under the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP), a programme targeted towards awarding collateral-free loans to two…
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2019: Hope Party sues INEC, APC over TraderMoni Scheme
The Hope Democratic Party has taken the Independent National Electoral Commission to court over TraderMoni Scheme being operated by the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government. The presidential candidate of Hope Party, Ambrose Owuru, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the party wants the court to punish INEC for allowing the APC to indirectly lobby…
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FG begins disbursement of N20bn to petty traders
The federal government has announced take off of Trader Moni, a scheme that offers N20 billion collateral free loans to petty traders in the country. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Senior Special Assistant to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Laolu Akande, made this known in Abuja on Sunday. Akande said the scheme will offer N10,000 collateral free loans…