The need to pay attention on the common man and spend the resources of
\nthis country on the poor people explains why the Buhari presidency has
\nproposed a N500B estimate in the 2016 budget, even as more details on the
\n6 social protection plans were released.<\/p>\n
In a News Release issued Sunday<\/span><\/span> the Senior Special Assistant-Media & “Even economic historians now say that not only is the half a trillion Continuing he noted that the six social safety plans would reduce high “The President’s vision is to increase investments in human capital to He disclosed that the presidency is aware that past attempts to address The Senior Special Assistant said for the Conditional Cash Transfer, CCT, He said World Bank and the Bill Gates Foundation are collaborating with In fact, Akande disclosed, that there would also be direct payment in the “In the case of the CCT, those one million poor Nigerians would be paid The media aide observed that the recipients of the CCT would meet the He stated that regarding the Homegrown School Feeding programme, the The one-meal-a-day programme is also being supported by the Imperial According to Akande, the Homegrown School Feeding will not only feed the The Buhari presidency has four other social investment plans, including There is also a Youth Employment plan that would take 370,000 For small scale traders, artisans and market women, there is the Micro And finally there is the Free Education plan for students of Science, The need to pay attention on the common man and spend the resources of this country on the poor people explains why the Buhari presidency has proposed a N500B estimate…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nPublicity in the Office of the Vice President, Mr. Laolu Akande disclosed
\nthat at no time in the nation’s budgetary history has the federal
\ngovernment made a specific vote of such volume for social welfare.<\/p>\n
\nNaira vote unprecedented, but it is also the greatest service ever done to
\nthe Nigerian state and people by any federal government administration,”
\nAkande said.<\/p>\n
\nlevels of poverty and vulnerabilities, while also increasing Nigeria’s
\nHuman Development Index on the global UN rankings.<\/p>\n
\nguarantee security for all, employment and improved well-being of the
\npeople,” the Vice President’s media aide added.<\/p>\n
\npoverty have suffered because of insufficient political will, presence of
\nvarious uncoordinated initiatives and poorly targeted beneficiaries among
\nother factors, and is working to avoid the pitfalls.<\/p>\n
\nwhere one million extremely poor Nigeria will receive N5000 monthly in
\n2016, the money would be paid directly to the beneficiaries through a
\npayment system that is being worked out.<\/p>\n
\nthe presidency to develop an efficient payment system. All together about
\nN60B has been estimated to be paid out to extremely poor Nigerians. And
\nthe implementation of the programme starts once the budget is passed.<\/p>\n
\nHomegrown School Feeding Programme.<\/p>\n
\ndirectly, while in the case of the Homegrown School Feeding, the suppliers
\nof the meals to the primary school pupils would also be paid directly by
\nthe federal government. There would be no middle agents involved official
\nor private,” according to Akande.<\/p>\n
\nconditions of their children participating in immunization and school
\nenrollment but also boost the economy as the money would boost consumer
\nspending in the economy.<\/p>\n
\nfederal government will start a pilot scheme in selected states once the
\nbudget is passed. An estimate of over N96B being proposed to be spent on
\nthe Homegrown School Feeding this year.<\/p>\n
\nCollege in the UK through one of its agencies Partnership for Child
\nDevelopment, PCD.<\/p>\n
\nchildren and help their learning significantly, but it would also boost
\nthe local economy of the states and the local communities.<\/p>\n
\nthe 500,000 direct jobs, where unemployed graduates would be trained and
\nhired to become volunteer teachers in their communities while looking for
\njobs in their chosen profession.<\/p>\n
\nnon-graduates youths through skills acquisition and vocational training
\nprogrammes. Like the teaching jobs, the selection of beneficiaries for
\nthis scheme would be done on states and FCT basis, opened to all Nigerians
\nof different shades.<\/p>\n
\nCredit scheme where one million Nigerians would get a one-time soft loan
\nof N60,000 each through the Bank of Industry.<\/p>\n
\nTechnology, Engineering & Mathematics, STEM where government will pay
\ntuition for 100,000 students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"