The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) gave this indication ahead of the Northern States Governors’ Forum/USA Investors and Aid Agencies forum billed to hold today in Abuja .
A statement yesterday by Danladi Ndayebo the spokesman of Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu who is the Chairman of Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF) in Minna yesterday has disclosed.
The statement hinted that the Administrator of USAID, Dr Rajiv Shah, has said at the a meeting on Wednesday that the US government would make direct investments in four critical areas of Agriculture, Infrastructure, Power/Energy and Health/ Education with a view to mitigating poverty and ending insurgency.
According to the statement, “this is the highlight of a meeting between USAID and Northern States Governors in Abuja Wednesday night”.
The statement disclosed that Governor Aliyu has said the collaboration between the forum and the US government would provide a broader platform for agricultural development, as it can employ about 70 per cent of the Nigeria’s workforce, while accounting for slightly more than 40 per cent of the nation’s gross domestic product.
“Under the partnership, we intend to build collaborative business skills of smallholder farmers and associations and increase access to credit and electronic payment services and advancing the development of evidence-based agricultural policies,” Aliyu was quoted in the statement.
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