ANNEX: COMMITTEE'S VISIT PROGRAMME IN
NIGERIA
The Committee visited Nigeria from 11-18 June 2009.
Members participating: Malcolm Bruce (Chairman), Hugh Bayley,
Mr Virendra Sharma, Mr Marsha Singh, Andrew Stunell
Accompanied by: Carol Oxborough (Clerk); Ben Williams (Assistant
Clerk)
Lagos
Thursday
11 June
Briefing from DFID and FCO officials
Meeting with Ben Akabueze, Lagos State Commissioner for Economic
Planning and Budget
Visit to Land Registry project
Meeting with Professor Akin Mabogunje, Chair of the Lagos Mega-City
Development Authority
Friday
12 June
Visit to urban HIV/AIDS project in
Ketu
Field visit through Lagos on new City Bus and briefing on the
transport sector from Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority
(LAMATA)
Visit to Obalende urban community regeneration project
Meeting with the Enhancing Financial Innovation and Access for
the Poor (EFINA) project
Meeting with Programme Managers of DFID-funded programmes in Lagos
Kano State
Saturday
13 June
Visit to Tiga Dam (water resource
management)
Field visit to rice parboilers and millers rural livelihoods project
in Karfi village (part of DFID's Promoting Pro-Poor Opportunities
through Commodity and Service Markets programme)
Kano city
Sunday
14 June
Field visit to Thamarul Qur'an Islamiyya
School
Field visit to Market Division Community Policing Project
Dinner briefing from Programme Managers of DFID-funded programmes
in Northern Nigeria
Monday
15 June
Meeting with the Kano Deputy State
Governor and State Commissioners
Field visit to Garun Mallam primary health care facility
Abuja
Tuesday
16 June
Meeting with Dr Shamsuddeen Usman,
Federal Minister for National Planning
Meeting with Professor Humphrey Asobie, Chairman of the Board
of the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
(NEITI)
Meeting with Professor Babatunde Osotimehin, Federal Minister
for Health
Meeting with Dr Mansur Muhtar, Federal Minister of Finance
Wednesday
17 June
Meeting with Amina Az-Zubair, Senior
Special Assistant to the President on the Millennium Development
Goals
Meeting with Chairs of the National Assembly House Committees
on Donors and Inter-Parliamentary Relations
Roundtable meeting with civil society organisations
Dinner briefing from donor partners: African Development Bank,
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), IMF, UN Development
Programme (UNDP), World Bank
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