Nigerians
Will Start Getting N500bn Social Intervention From June 11 - Lai Mohammed
The
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says Federal
Government (FG) will start the first roll out of its N500 billion intervention
scheme on June 11.
The
minister made the disclosure at the inaugural “Buharimeter Town hall Meeting’’,
organised by the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), in Abuja on
Thursday.
The
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the town hall meeting was organised
to evaluate the one year of President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.
The
event was supported by the Open Society for West Africa (OSIWA), and Department
for International Development (DFID),
Mohammed
said the government would on Saturday open an internet portal named
“npower.gov.ng’’ and start taking applications for the 500,000 direct teacher
job scheme.
He
said that other schemes in the social investment programme would be rolled out
in the coming weeks.
The
schemes, according to the minister, included the conditional cash transfer that
pays N5,000 monthly to one million Nigerians and the micro-credit scheme for
more than 1.5 million people.
He
said the others were the home grown school feeding programme that will serve
5.5 million pupils and the education support grant programme for 100,000
tertiary students in Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics (STEM),
and education.
The
minister assured that while there was still much work to be done, the
administration neither lacked the political will nor the discipline and the
determination to fulfill its electoral promises and take Nigeria to greater
heights.
“The
Change we promised is real, and with the takeoff of our massive social
intervention programmes in a few days, Nigerians will begin to feel the impact
of the new order.’’
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