5.5m Households Benefit From Conditional Cash Transfer

The national authorities connected Thursday revealed that much than 5.5 cardinal Nigerian households were presently benefiting from its Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) scheme.

Minister of State for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Dr Yusuf Tanko Sununu said plans were ongoing to grow the programme to an further 600,000 households earlier the extremity of 2025.

Sununu disclosed this during the motorboat of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Social Protection Framework and Operational Plan successful Abuja.

He said the inaugural was successful enactment with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu, and formed portion of Nigeria’s efforts to fortify societal extortion systems.

Represented by, Director of Social Development successful the ministry, Valentine Ezulu, the curate noted that the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA) has been cardinal to this work, with different flagship programmes specified arsenic the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP), N-Power, the National Homegrown School Feeding Programme, and the Social Safety Net Coordinating Office.

According to him, digitisation of the National Social Register, which present holds information connected much than 19.7 cardinal households has improved transparency and ratio successful targeting susceptible groups.

He added that authorities was besides supporting micro and tiny enterprises, resettling internally displaced persons, and rolling retired caller grooming initiatives to equip young radical with market-ready skills.

“More than 5.5 cardinal households are presently benefiting with plans to scope an further 600,000 households nationwide earlier the extremity of the year, these systems volition guarantee that nary Nigerian is near down adjacent successful the astir hard times,” helium disclosed.

On the determination front, the ECOWAS Commissioner for Human Development and Social Affairs, Professor Fatou Sow Sarr arsenic good arsenic planetary partners welcomed the motorboat of the framework, describing it arsenic a turning constituent for inclusive maturation successful West Africa.

Delivering a goodwill message, Director of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Office for Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Liaison Office for ECOWAS, Dr Vanessa Phala stressed that societal extortion was not lone a quality close but besides an economical necessity.

She observed that portion planetary sum stands astatine 52 percent, sub-Saharan Africa lags with lone 15.4 percent of the colonisation accessing astatine slightest 1 signifier of benefit.

She urged governments successful the portion to standard up concern successful societal extortion floors, guarantee portability of entitlements for migrant workers, and prosecute much efficaciously with societal partners to present change.