{"id":73880,"date":"2025-08-21T14:58:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73880"},"modified":"2025-08-21T14:58:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:58:32","slug":"fg-launches-renewed-hope-geep-3-0-targets-5m-beneficiaries-by-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/21\/fg-launches-renewed-hope-geep-3-0-targets-5m-beneficiaries-by-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Launches Renewed Hope GEEP 3.0, Targets 5m Beneficiaries by 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has launched the third phase of its flagship financial inclusion initiative, the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP), rebranded as Renewed Hope GEEP (RHGEEP 3.0), with a target of reaching five million Nigerians by 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative was unveiled at a national stakeholders\u2019 roundtable in Abuja on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event, the National Coordinator and Chief Executive Officer of the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), Badamasi Lawal, said the new phase marks a major recalibration, with greater emphasis on trust, accountability, and consistency.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that RHGEEP 3.0 is designed to provide micro-credit and financial support to women, youth, artisans, petty traders, and smallholder farmers, sectors he described as the \u201cbackbone of the nation\u2019s economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lawal noted that while earlier phases such as TraderMoni and MarketMoni recorded notable successes, the revamped scheme aims to strengthen transparency and improve repayment mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to reach five million beneficiaries by 2027, supported by a strong and positive repayment culture,\u201d Lawal said, stressing that success would hinge on effective collaboration between the government, financial institutions, and civil society.<\/p>\n<p>He assured stakeholders that the renewed programme would be impactful, inclusive, and sustainable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo &nbsp; The Federal Government has launched the third phase of its flagship financial inclusion initiative, the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP), rebranded as Renewed Hope GEEP (RHGEEP 3.0), with a target of reaching five million Nigerians by 2027. The initiative was unveiled at a national stakeholders\u2019 roundtable in Abuja on Thursday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73880","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73882,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73880\/revisions\/73882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}