At a send-off dinner, on Saturday, attended by three retired permanent secretaries of State House, management staff and some senior presidential aides, Alkali was praised by colleagues as an exemplary and diligent civil servant.
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The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, announced this at the briefing of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 on Monday in Abuja.
The announcement was greeted by vitriol and anger on and off social media by the youthful, extremely vocal and so, not surprisingly, social media savvy beneficiaries who did not wish to exit the programme even though Batch A beneficiaries had, somehow, managed to stay for over 40 months, 16 months longer than the programmes advertised for 24 months.
Hajiya Sadiya Farouq, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, made the announcement in a statement signed by the Deputy Director of Information in the Ministry, Rhoda Iliya, on Friday in Abuja.
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.