Rev. David Ugolor, the Executive Director, Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, made this known.
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This approach is imperative as the major challenge facing Nigerian politics is about opening the democratic space, but despite the odd, the people must be challenged to make hard choices.
It was the late economist, John Kenneth Galbraith, in the book: “The Nature of Mass Poverty,” who warned that: “Poverty is man’s (and woman’s) most powerful and massive affliction. It is the progenitor of much further pain – from hunger and disease on to civil conflict and war itself.” In our case in Nigeria, beyond our self-inflicted ethnic and religious conflicts, poverty is also at the root of all the kidnappings, abductions and banditry.
A statement by the Unit Head of the Bayelsa State Cash Transfer Unit, Tonbara Kenigbolo made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday said that the funds released by the Federal Government for the scheme were safe.
This, according to her, was for the Conditional Cash Transfer to vulnerable Nigerians across the country.
The exercise was said to have ended abruptly as many scampered in different directions for safety
The Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, on Thursday launched the Federal Government’s Conditional Cash Transfer scheme in the State, which will see more than 15,000 beneficiaries across the State get N20,000 each.
The Federal Government has commenced the payment of N20,000 each to 5,000 beneficiaries of its Conditional Cash Transfer programme in the Federal Capital Territory.
The Head of Conditional Cash Transfer Unit in Kogi, Falilat Abdulrazaq, said 62, 160 beneficiaries had been captured in the state under the Federal Government’s CCT Household Uplifting Programme.
Temitope Sinkaiye, National Coordinator, Conditional Cash Transfer, Unit, says the Federal Government has spent up to N15 billion on N1.8 million vulnerable women across 20 states.
According to the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity in the Office of the Vice President, Laolu Akande, the nine States are Bauchi, Borno, Cross Rivers, Ekiti, Kwara, Kogi, Niger, Osun and Oyo
Therefore, as the federal government’s Social Investment Programme begins to take shape, it is expected that all Nigerians key into them and lend necessary support to the Buhari administration to enable it quickly address the myriad of challenges facing the country
The programme is under the government’s Social Investment Programmes, where N30,000 monthly stipends were earlier paid to 200,000 youths under the N-Power programme, which began in December 2016, and the School Feeding programme
Under the scheme, 12 local government areas are participating in the first phase, while the remaining four local government areas are being considered to benefit in the second phase
The state Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajia Ayinke Saka, confirmed this to newsmen in Ilorin on Wednesday
Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, stated this while fielding questions from State House correspondents in Abuja
The Coordinator, Project Support Unit (PSU), of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in Plateau, Mr Peter Gai, said at the weekend that the state has made remarkable successes in the implementation of the MDGs.