According to a statement released, Monday, 2nd of January by Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Vice president Yemi Osinbajo, the government stated that the payment was effected through the Conditional Cash Transfer, CCT, of the government’s Social Investment Programmes, SIP.
It was learnt that One million Nigerians would receive N5,000 monthly payments under the CCT as a form of social safety net for the poorest and most vulnerable as budgeted for in the 2016 Budget.
Akande further said that many of the beneficiaries have already receiving their first payments in the first batch that commenced last week. __“In the first batch that commenced last week, nine states would be covered.”
The statement listed Borno, Kwara, Bauchi, Cross Rivers, Niger, Kogi, Oyo, Ogun and Ekiti states as states in the first batch to commence the CCT payment.
The government said that the states were selected because they had a social register that identified the vulnerable and poorest Nigerians.
Other states include Plateau, Jigawa, Adamawa, Anambra, Benue, Enugu, Katsina, Taraba, Delta, Gombe, Kaduna, Kano, Imo and Ogun States.
Akande disclosed that the N-Power Volunteer Corps designed to hire half a million unemployed graduates has now engaged 200,000, and the National Homegrown School Feeding Programme now runs in 3 states.
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