The Niger State Government, the World Bank and French Development Agency have committed N9.4 billion to the construction of rural roads under the Rural Access and Mobility Programme in the last seven years. Under the tripartite funding arrangement over 403 kilometres of rural access roads were constructed across the 25 local governments of the state. According to the State Coordinator of the project, Alhaji Hassan Baba Etsu who briefed newsmen on the activities of the programme in Minna, the state capital Thursday, the donor agencies involved the funding of the scheme had given the state a pass mark as such approved that it should move to the next stage of the programme which is RAAMP 111. Etsu said the RAAMP would focus more on development of agriculture in order to create employment for teeming Nigerian unemployed youths and those in the rural areas. “This programme will boost employment and food production not only for…
Source: Thisday Newspaper
