The Minister of Labour, Employment and Productivity, Chris Ngige, has claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration ensures that a total of 1.6 million poor households benefit from a bi-monthly payment of N10,000 each.
According to Ngige, it is part of the federal government’s plan to mitigate suffering among the citizens.
Ngige made this known during the 2023 International Workers’ Day celebrations at the Eagle Square in Abuja on Monday.
He said, “In 2016, President Muhammadu Buhari launched the National Social Investment Programme, currently the largest of such programmes in Africa and one of the largest in the world. The National Social Register of Poor and Vulnerable Nigerians (NSR) now has 32.6 million persons from more than 7 million poor and vulnerable households, identified across 708 Local Government areas, 8,723 wards and 86,610 communities across the 36 states of the country and the FCT.
“From this number, 1.6 million poor and vulnerable households (comprising more than eight million individuals in 45,744 communities from 5,483 Wards of 557 LGAs in 35 states and the FCT are currently benefiting from the Conditional Cash Transfer programme, which pays a bimonthly stipend of N10,000 per household.”
