The Minister of National Planning, Dr Shamsudden Usman, said in Abuja, on Thursday, that four development partners had donated 80 million dollars in support of the country’s democratic governance and development.
Usman, who is also the deputy chairman of the National Planning Commission (NPC), disclosed this at the signing ceremony of the project document, tagged “Democratic Governance for Development in Nigeria (DGD)”, between the commission and the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the donor agencies were the UNDP, the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the European Union (EU) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).