Nigerian Govt gives 10,623 poor persons N5, 000 monthly grant

A total of 10,623 extremely poor and vulnerable persons in Kaduna State have been selected to receive N5,000 monthly under the Federal Government Conditional Cash Transfer Scheme.

The beneficiaries, whose age range from 25-90 were selected from nine local government areas in the state.

Those selected represents 30 percent of the extremely poor and vulnerable persons in the selected local areas.

The scheme is part of the National Social Investment Programme of the Buhari administration and plans to reach 80 million poor Nigerians in the long run.

So far, 455,857 poor and vulnerable households have been uploaded onto the National Social Register, from which 297,973 households have been mined and are being paid stipends in 20 States.

The states are Jigawa, Bauchi, Kogi, Osun, Cross River, Anambra, Katsina, Kano, Taraba, Gombe, Adamawa, Niger, Nassarawa, Benue,…