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Mr. Apera Iorwa is the National Coordinator, National Social Safetynets Coordinating Office (NASSCO), an agency of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Coordinating the National Safetynets Programme. In this interview with Ndubuisi Francis, he provides perspectives on sundry nagging issues
What in essence does your office entail?
The federal government in 2016 (of course at the coming of the current administration in 2015) prioritised social protection as a strategy to poverty alleviation or an approach to dealing with the poverty question in Nigeria and so that then gave rise to them approaching the World Bank and in partnership with the World Bank, established the national safetynets programme.
Minister assures on opening Apo-Karshi road before rains
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Speaking with journalists after the federal executive council (FEC) meeting at the presidential villa on Wednesday, Bello said an error in the design of the road delayed its construction.
The road which is about 13 kilometers was awarded in 2011 to Kakatar Engineering Limited, a company owned by Azibaola Robert, a cousin of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Commuters around Nyanya, Karu and Karshi axis of the FCT have had to endure traffic congestion on a daily basis.
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“The Karshi-Apo road is a project that should have been delivered by now. One of the main challenges faced in that road has to do with error in the design whereby a huge rock outcrop on the alignment of the road corridor became very difficult to be able to arrange,” the minister said.
FCT minister wants Apo-Karshi road opened before raining season
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