Nigeria has expressed its readiness to collaborate with the King Salman Foundation of Saudi Arabia in order to drive socio-economic development in Nigeria.
This development followed a meeting between the Minister of State for Finance, Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite, with representatives from the Foundation today in her office in Abuja.
The discussions focused on exploring areas of collaboration that would yield tangible benefits for Nigeria’s socio-economic development, such as Human Development, promoting education, health and poverty alleviation, agricultural development and food security.
The minister emphasised the importance of collaboration in achieving the shared vision of improving the lives and livelihoods of Nigerians, particularly in line with the Renewed Hope Agenda of the Tinubu Administration.
She commended the Foundation for showing interest in partnering with Nigeria to drive projects in key sectors such as agriculture and health, with a focus on malaria eradication, malnutrition, conflict resolution between herders and farmers, and borderline sanitation.
Speaking earlier, the leader of the delegation, Dr Ali Alghamdi, assured of the Foundation’s commitment to working closely with the ministry with a view to ensuring the realization of the policy objectives of the present administration.
The King Salman Foundation, with partnerships in over 100 countries, has assured the Nigeria of its commitment to working closely to realise the policy objectives of the present administration.
The Foundation is one of the donors to Live and Livelihood Funds (LLF) which offers a special grant aims at supporting the member countries to execute projects with humanitarian concerns under the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB).
