{"id":63704,"date":"2025-04-03T09:42:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T09:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63704"},"modified":"2025-04-04T06:01:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T06:01:26","slug":"nigeria-secures-1-08bn-world-bank-funding-for-education-nutrition-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/03\/nigeria-secures-1-08bn-world-bank-funding-for-education-nutrition-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Secures $1.08bn World Bank Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The World Bank has approved $1.08 billion in concessional financing to bolster education, nutrition, and community resilience in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The package includes $500 million for the Community Action for Resilience and Economic Stimulus (NG-CARES) Program, $80 million for Accelerating Nutrition Results in Nigeria (ANRIN 2.0), and another $500 million for the Hope for Quality Basic Education for All initiative.<\/p>\n<p>These funds will enhance livelihood support, expand nutrition services for vulnerable groups, and strengthen foundational education nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>World Bank Country Director Dr. Ndiam\u00e9 Diop highlighted that the investment would spur economic growth and human capital development by improving education quality and supporting at-risk communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The World Bank has approved $1.08 billion in concessional financing to bolster education, nutrition, and community resilience in Nigeria. The package includes $500 million for the Community Action for Resilience and Economic Stimulus (NG-CARES) Program, $80 million for Accelerating Nutrition Results in Nigeria (ANRIN 2.0), and another $500 million for the Hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63752,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63704\/revisions\/63752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}