The Federal Government through the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development have started the disbursement of N20,000 cash grants to 3,415 vulnerable groups (GVG) in Kogi State. INDEPENDENT reports.Information Guide Nigeria
Hajia Sadiya Farouq, the Minister who inaugurated the disbursement yesterday in Lokoja, said other beneficiaries under the National Social Investment Programmes (NSIP) would also get their various packages.
She said the programmes include: Government Enterprise and Empowerment Program (GEEP 2.0), Digitised Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT), NPower, and Home Grown School Feeding Program (HGSFP).
She said the NSIP remained a project that is consistent with the deliberate national agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari, to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty by 2030.
She said the GVG was designed to provide a one-off cash grant of N20,000 to some of the poorest and most vulnerable Nigerians in the rural and peri-urban areas to ease them out of poverty.
The Minister, who was represented by the Director of Special Duties in the Ministry, Mrs Nadia Soso-Muhammed, said their target was to disburse the grant to 3,415 beneficiaries across the 21 local government areas of Kogi.
She noted that President Buhari through his deliberate social inclusion agenda had directed that 70 percent of the beneficiaries should be women and 30 percent youths.NYSC portal
She added that 15 percent of the total beneficiaries would be allocated to people with special needs and senior citizens.
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She explained that the GEEP 2.0, was in three categories: Trader-Moni, Market-Moni, and Farmer-Moni, in which beneficiaries would get loans ranging from 50,000 to N300,000 with zero interest depending on the category.
She said about 1,142,783 potential beneficiaries had been registered across the 774 LGAs in Nigeria out of which 50,394 were from Kogi.
She added 14,404 out of the 50,394 registered in Kogi had been verified out of which about 3, 437 were enumerated and selected for payment in the first phase.JAMB portal
The minister said a total of 9.9 million school children are currently being fed nationwide, adding that President Buhari had approved additional 5 million children to be included.
She commended Governor Yahaya Bello for his immense contribution and commitment which had ensured the great success the NSIP had recorded in Kogi.How To Check Jamb Result By Registration Number or SMS
Farouq charged all beneficiaries of the different programmes to use the grant and loans to improve their productivity, create wealth, and employment, and improve their living standard.
In his remarks, the Governor thanked the President and the Minister for all the various intervention programmes that the federal government had put in place for the Kogi people and Nigeria at large.JAMB Result
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