*5.5 million school children to be fed for 200 school days in first phase
\nof homegrown school feeding programme<\/p>\n
*Over 1.6 million Nigerian traders, market women, men, artisans to receive
\nloans.<\/p>\n
*1 million extremely poor and vulnerable Nigerians to receive N60,000 this All together the federal government would be directly impacting the lives This disclosure was made last night by the Senior Special Assistant for He gave new details and a breakdown of the interventions and palliatives, 1.*the direct payment of N5000 monthly to one million extremely poor 2*the direct provision of very soft loan -cash for market women, men and 3*payment of between N23,000 to N30,000 per month to 500,000 unemployed 4. At least 5.5 million Nigerian primary school children -ie starting 5. 100,000 tertiary students in Science Technology Engineering & When added together this year alone, more than 8 million Nigerians would Akande who works from the Office of the Vice President said the N500B “Long before now the Presidency has made adequate arrangements in the 2016 This will not only assuage the current pains arising from the new fuel He added that this is beside the jobs that would be created by the Said he: “the Buhari presidency is keen to ensure that Nigerians are *5.5 million school children to be fed for 200 school days in first phase of homegrown school feeding programme *Over 1.6 million Nigerian traders, market women, men, artisans to receive…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nyear in 12 mont<\/span><\/span>hs payments of N5000 each.<\/p>\n
\nof more than 8 million Nigerians in different social investment 2016
\nbudget spending that would provide succor and be a ready-made palliative
\nto ordinary Nigerians.<\/p>\n
\nMedia & Publicity to the President, Mr. Laolu Akande, in an interaction
\nwith the press in Abuja.<\/p>\n
\nsome of which he said would be starting in a matter of weeks thus:<\/p>\n
\nNigerians for 12 months as provided for in the 2016 budget for which
\nN$68.7B has been appropriated.<\/p>\n
\ntraders, including artisans and Agric workers. This would be for a total
\nof 1.76m Nigerians, without the requirement for conventional collateral.
\nSome of the traders will likely get about N60,000. A total sum of N140.3B
\nhas already been appropriated for this in the budget<\/p>\n
\ngraduates who would be trained, paid and deployed to work as volunteer
\nteachers, public health officers and extension service workers among other
\nresponsibilities.
\n-They would also be given electronic devices to empower them
\ntechnologically both for their assignments and beyond
\n-similarly 100,000 artisans would also be trained and paid
\nN191.5B has been set aside for this in the passed budget.<\/p>\n
\nfirst in
\n18 states-three per geopolitical zones-would be fed for 200 school days
\nunder the free Homegrown School Feeding Programme.
\nN93.1B has been appropriated for this in the 2016 budget.<\/p>\n
\nMaths-STEM, plus Education will partake in the N5.8B already provided for
\nthis education grant in the budget. This payment would also be paid
\ndirectly to the students.<\/p>\n
\nbe benefiting from the Social Investment budget.<\/p>\n
\nsocial investement programmes of the Buhari administration is a ready made
\npalliative to lift Nigerians from poverty and economic hardship.<\/p>\n
\nbudget to ensure that Nigerians are lifted from poverty and hardship,” the
\nspokesperson stated.<\/p>\n
\npricing regime, but will provide ongoing social safety nets for over 8
\nmillion Nigerians this year alone, according to Akande.<\/p>\n
\ninfrastructural projects that would be restored and the new ones that
\nwould soon be taking off.<\/p>\n
\nlifted and that if necessary on an ongoing basis palliatives measures
\nwould always been considered to address the conditions of the people.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"