{"id":43201,"date":"2024-07-22T20:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ebonyi-govt-distributes-n2bn-to-100-communities-for-rural-development\/"},"modified":"2024-07-22T20:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T20:00:20","slug":"ebonyi-govt-distributes-n2bn-to-100-communities-for-rural-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ebonyi-govt-distributes-n2bn-to-100-communities-for-rural-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebonyi Govt distributes N2bn to 100 communities for rural development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Ebonyi State Government has disbursed N2.055 billion to 100 communities.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Francis Nwifuru officially flagged off the Ebonyi State Community and Social Development Agency, EB-CSDA programme in collaboration with the Ministry of Human Capital Development and Monitoring at Re Meritona Hotel Abakaliki.<\/p>\n<p>Nwifuru stated that 2,040 citizens would be empowered under the World Bank-assisted NG-CARES.<\/p>\n<p>The governor, who was represented by the Speaker of the Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Moses Ije-Odunwa, said that the state-wide micro-project and fund disbursement would be beneficial to 100 qualified communities to the tune of N12.5 million for each community for the development of rural projects.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker noted that 2,040 labour-intensive public workforce beneficiaries would receive the sum of N180,000 per individual and said that the decision was in line with the governor\u2019s people\u2019s charter of needs mantra.<\/p>\n<p>The General Manager of EB-CSDA, James Egwu, said beneficiaries of the empowerment would receive N360,000 within the two tranches of the disbursement and appreciated the state governor for his strong support of human capital development.<\/p>\n<p>The programme was attended by the Commissioner for Finance, Dr Leonard Uguru; Special Assistant to the Governor on Inter-Party Affairs, Sunday Nwambam; and former state chairman of EBCSDA and current chairman of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Peter Mbam.<\/p>\n<p>Ebonyi Govt distributes N2bn to 100 communities for rural development<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ebonyi State Government has disbursed N2.055 billion to 100 communities. Governor Francis Nwifuru officially flagged off the Ebonyi State&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[651,15],"tags":[4151,645,1245,19835,654,190,512,12506,180,21784],"class_list":["post-43201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ebonyi","category-news","tag-4151","tag-communities","tag-development","tag-distributes","tag-ebonyi","tag-for","tag-govt","tag-n2bn","tag-news","tag-rural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}