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Yobe to get N712m World Bank projects
From Njadvara Musa, Damaturu
YOBE State Agency for Poverty Reduction (YAPR) has approved the proposals and execution of 399 World Bank assisted projects located in various parts of the state.
The projects, according to their estimated costs, will gulp N711.78 million before they are completed by the agency.
This was disclosed by the General Manager of YAPR, Alhaji Goni Babagana, while briefing journalists on the agency's community projects for the 2003 and 2004 financial years in Damaturu, the state capital.
He said that all the 399 projects have direct bearings on the lives of the people.
Already, he said out of the approved projects, 158 or 40 per cent had been competed, adding that the remaining 241 were at various stages of completion.
According to him, all the World Bank assisted projects that have been approved cover various sectors of the economy including healthcare delivery services and education at the primary and secondary school levels.
He said that apart from these sectors, the projects also covered water and electricity supplies, drainage facilities, agricultural and desertification which had been affecting the lives of the people for many decades.
To ensure more communities benefit from the projects, he said that 195 applications were received and assessed from the three senatorial districts.
Babagana told The Guardian that the bank contributed 90 per cent by the funding while the communities paid the remaining 10.
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