…that funds previously spent on subsidy could be redirected towards infrastructure, social intervention programmes and other development needs. Atiku’s sixth presidential bid Atiku, 79, is seeking the presidency for the sixth time after five previous attempts. He contested the presidency in 2007, 2019 and 2023, losing t…

…whose consequences required complementary measures to cushion its impact, expand social intervention and strengthen productive sectors of the economy. This is as he added that the real test of leadership was not the “ability to promise immediate relief for electoral advantage but the courage to take difficult decisions…

…2022 to about N7.3tn in 2025 following the removal of petrol subsidy, creating room for social interventions. “What have you done with your own allocation?” Murray-Bruce asked. He argued that governors should devote five per cent of their allocations to transport subsidies while using the balance to fund other responsi…

…daily lives,” he said. The governor said the latest distribution was part of a broader social intervention programme through which his administration had previously supported women engaged in some businesses across the state’s 361 wards during the Ramadan period. He also recalled the government’s intervention for 7,220…

…17-year-old beautiful girl. Organised by Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf's administration as a social intervention, the event provided each couple with dowries, household items, business startup funds, and medical screenings including HIV and genotype tests. "I just added another wife and I am happy. I now have three wives"…

…Kano State Hisbah Board and held on Friday, was organised as part of the government’s social intervention efforts to support vulnerable residents and ease the financial burden associated with marriage.

…to Babarinde, Adeleke has delivered infrastructure projects and impacted lives through social intervention programmes that have endeared him to the people of the state. He maintained that despite the “political onslaught” by the APC, the governor would win the August 15 election by a landslide. “This is not a predictio…

…Niger), described rural development as “a strategic economic priority” rather than a social intervention. Abdullahi said that despite decades of public investment and development planning, Nigeria’s largest infrastructure deficit remains in rural communities, where most of the population lives and where much of the cou…