LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government is reviewing and expanding the National Social Register to accommodate pensioners and ex-servicemen under its Conditional Cash Transfer scheme. It is also removing beneficiaries who have excited the poverty line. Saturday PUNCH gathered that the government was also taking out dead beneficiaries from the register and would disqualify those…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government is set to commence cash payment to 200,000 Nigerians. The beneficiaries are urban poor senior citizens that do not have access to regular income and are impacted by COVID-19. Iorwa Apera, Coordinator, National Social Safety Net Programme, made the announcement on Monday in Abuja. The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs…
LAGOS MAY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos government has approved the establishment of the State Cash Transfer Unit (SCTU) for the National Cash Transfer programme. The State Commissioner for Wealth Creation and Employment, Mrs. Yetunde Arobieke who disclosed this Thursday in Lagos while rendering the account of activities of her ministry within the last one year to…