The Federal Government has authorized the participation of another one million NPower program participants.
Sadiya Farouq, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, acknowledged this in a statement acquired by journalists on April 3.
According to the announcement, the N-Power volunteer initiative provides temporary employment possibilities for 498,602 graduates under Batches A and B, as well as 450,000 graduates under Batch C Stream 1 throughout States.
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According to Farouq, 390,000 more Nigerians were enrolled in Batch C Stream 2 as a result, and presidential authority was obtained to enroll an additional one million beneficiaries.
According to the paper acquired by Newsmen, between January 1 and March 25, 2022, 174 of the 1,850 mobile agents trained, kitted, and registered with the Central Bank of Nigeria – Shared Agents Network Expansion Facility for agency banking achieved a transaction volume of over N657 million.
According to the announcement, two million Nigerians would receive almost N20 billion in basic and conditional cash transfers under the National Cash Transfer Program beginning in June 2022.
The Federal Government will pay each of the two million persons N5,000 under the basic cash transfer and an extra N5,000 under the conditional cash transfer, according to the Ministry.
This means the government would spend N20 billion on the recipients.
The number of persons receiving government cash transfers has been growing, according to a March 2022 document on the strategic roadmap and actions of the FMHA, DMSD, acquired by reporters yesterday.
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According to the study, the National Cash Transfer Programme reached 1.6 million individuals in 19 states in 2018, 24 states in 2019, and 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory in 2022, covering a total of 1.6 million people.
Farouq, on the other hand, stated in the paper that the figure will rise even more in June.
According to her, the Federal Government assists poor and vulnerable households with cash every month through the cash transfer system.
“By June 2022 we would be paying two million people N5,000 basic cash transfer and an additional N5,000 on conditional cash transfers, which is conditioned on good health-seeking/behaviour, school retention, and good water and hygiene conditions in their environment/homes,” Farouq stated.
She explained that the ministry designed and piloted a shock-responsive social register, called the Rapid Response Register to capture urban poor informal workers, who were daily wage earners, working across towns and cities, and impacted by the COVID-19 lockdown.
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The minister said, “To date, of this one million targeted by the government, we have been able to pay the sum of N5000 to 850,000 beneficiaries digitally through the Nigeria Inter-bank Settlement System, where each account is carefully validated by the system before payment.
“150,000 will be paid by the end of April 2022. Each of these beneficiaries is receiving six months of cash support.”
Under the National Social Register, the ministry stated that 46 million persons in the 36 states and FCT, in 11 million households, had totalled registered as of 2022.
It further stated in the document that 174 of the 1,850 mobile agents trained, kitted, and registered with the Central Bank of Nigeria – Shared Agents Network Expansion facility for agency banking achieved a transaction volume of over N657m between January 1 and March 25, 2022.
“The top 10 mobile money agents executed transactions totalling N300,095,545.06 and earned N1,852,499.00 between January and March 25, 2022,” the ministry stated.
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The report indicated that 9.8 million pupils were being fed daily under the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme, while 127,000 cooks had been engaged and 98 aggregators were supplying various protein products.
The school feeding programme is one of the four clusters of the National Social Investment Programme which seeks to provide one free daily meal to pupils on the programme.
The NHGSFP is designed as a collaboration between the Federal Government and state governments. The Federal Government is responsible for the release of funds, guidelines, policies, and monitoring.
The state carries out the day-to-day implementation including procurement of food items, and selection of cooks and vendors who prepare, cook, and serve the meals to the pupils.
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