The Federal Government, on Tuesday, said it had set aside the sum of N1.6 billion for women empowerment programme called the National Women Empowerment Fund (NAWEF).
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Sen. Aisha Jummai Alhassan, made this disclosure at a town hall meeting with women groups in Dutse.
Alhassan said that NAWEF is part of the FG’s Social Investment Intervention Programme known as the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP).
She explained that the programme was being implemented by the ministry in collaboration with the Bank of Industry (BoI), the administrating bank for the fund.
“The GEEP is a micro-credit programme for men and women, boys and girls and out of the GEEP fund, a sum of N1.6bn, has been set aside exclusively for women.
“Both NAWEF and GEEP are financial inclusion and microcredit…
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