By David Kabiyesi
Minister of Labour, Employment, and Productivity, Chris Ngige has come in defense of the Buhari administration’s fight against poverty when he declared in clear terms that over 1.6 million vulnerable Nigerian get N10,000 monthly.
Speaking at 2023 International Workers’ Day celebrations at Eagle Square in Abuja on Monday, Ngige, stated that this is in line with the federal government’s move to alleviate suffering among the vulnerables.
He said, “In 2016, President Muhammadu Buhari launched the National Social Investment Programme, currently the largest of such programs 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 program, which pays a bimonthly stipend of N10,000 per household.
