The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have completed 5,532 projects in 113 local government areas between 2011 and 2012, Precious Gbeneol, special assistant to the president on MDGs, has said.
This is contained in a statement issued by the media and communication consultant to Gbeneol, Desmond Utomwen, on Monday in Abuja.
According to the statement, MDGs’ Conditional Grants Scheme (CGS) impacts for 2011 to 2012 expanded from 113 to 261 LGAs.
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“Under that MDGs’ Conditional Grants Scheme (CGS), 5,532 projects have been completed across 113 LGAs and 2,690 projects are ongoing across 36 states.
“Also, 6,200 projects under another scheme have been completed across 148 local government areas and 1,203 projects are ongoing in 11 states”, it said.
The statement said that projects were targeted at the extreme poor households with children aged 0-15 years as well as pregnant women.
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