alfred007:
my fellow citizens of this country called Nigeria, good morning.
I believe that most persons on this forum are exposed and have a certain level of education. Also I would want to think that majority of us are YOUTH.

If my assumptions are true then why all these clueless and gullible comments.

1. Nigeria has no data-base: how will they know the poorest persons in the country?

2. I supposed, the money will be paid in the bank: how did they get the account details?

3. This government does everything on media: I bet you this will circulate for a while and die off. remember Saraki case and others, Saraki is still Senate President.

4. Do you not think this is the most foolish idea? What do an average youth spend in a day? how much do you spend in a week?

5. I think as youths this country belongs to us. when do we start holding our leaders accountable. they come up, say one thing or the other and will do nothing about anything.

THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE AFRAID OF ITS CITIZENS, NOT THE OTHER WAY ROUND.

THAT'S WHY AFRICA CAN NEVER DEVELOP.


SOMETIME LAST YEAR SOMEONE SAID BY DECEMBER RICE WILL BE SOLD 7500 A BAG BUT TILL TODAY I AM BUYING 25000 A BAG.

NOBODY HAS SAID ANYTHING TILL TODAY.

I WEEP FOR THIS NATION.

musicwriter:
Whenever I hear African countries relying on world bank data to perfom a simply task such as identifying most vulnerable Nigerians, it speaks volumes that no education is really going on in schools in third world countries. Otherwise, how could the world bank have such important data about Nigeria while the Nigerian government have none? Aren't there statisticians coming out of our universities?

Scrap this foolery called education!. Its not serving its purpose in Africa!!.

disc20:
The Federal Government has commenced the payment of N5,000 monthly to one million vulnerable Nigerians.

In a statement released, Monday, by Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Vice president Yemi Osinbajo, the government stated that the payment was effected through the Conditional Cash Transfer, CCT, of the government’s Social Investment Programmes, SIP.

According to the statement, one million Nigerians would receive N5,000 monthly payments under the CCT as a form of social safety net for the poorest and most vulnerable as budgeted for in the 2016 Budget.

Mr. Akande added that many of the beneficiaries have already reported receiving their first payments in the first batch that commenced last week.

“In the first batch that commenced last week, nine states would be covered, and many of the beneficiaries have already reported receiving their first payments by Friday last week, December 30, 2016.

“Funds for the commencement of the payments in four states were released last week to the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) – the platform that hosts and validates payments for all government’s social intervention programmes. Funds for another set of five states to complete the first batch of nine states would follow soon.”

The statement listed Borno, Kwara, Bauchi, Cross Rivers, Niger, Kogi, Oyo, Ogun and Ekiti states as states in the first batch to commence the CCT statement. It however said that the states were selected because they had a social register that identified the vulnerable and poorest Nigerians.

“Though the sequence for the payment of the money would be operationally managed by NIBSS, beneficiaries in Borno, Kwara and Bauchi States have started receiving the money. The other states in the first batch to commence the CCT payments are Cross Rivers, Niger, Kogi, Oyo, Ogun & Ekiti States,” Mr. Akande said.

“The nine pilot states were chosen because they have an existing Social Register that successfully identified the most vulnerable and poorest Nigerians through a tried and tested community based targeting (CBT) method working with the World Bank. However other states have already begun developing their Social Registers and would be included in subsequent phases of the CCT implementation.”

According to the statement, the federal government, with the support of the World Bank, has adopted the CBT for developing the social register in the other states around the country for transparency, objectivity and credibility in the selection of the poorest and vulnerable Nigerians. Hence, the federal government will soon commence community mobilisation for the creation of the register in more states, to expand the scope and reach of the CCT across the country.

Other states listed to have complied with the stipulated framework provided and are set for the community based targeting method for development of social register include Plateau, Jigawa, Adamawa, Anambra, Benue, Enugu, Katsina and Taraba States.

These states, Mr. Akande said, are to be followed by Delta, Gombe, Kaduna, Kano, Imo and Ogun States. The government also assured that once the information garnered are entered into the social register, cash transfers would be disbursed to beneficiaries.

“Once the community mobilisation, identification and selection processes are completed, the information garnered from the poorest households would be entered onto the Social Register in the
states and the National Register at NIBSS, after which the cash transfers would be disbursed to the beneficiaries.”

The statement also disclosed that funds approved for the SIP are domiciled with the Ministry of Budget and National Planning.

Meanwhile, the federal government said that with the commencement of the CCT, the Buhari administration is now implementing four of the federal government’s SIP.
Mr. Akande said the N-Power Volunteer Corps designed to hire half a million unemployed graduates has now engaged 200,000, and the National Homegrown School Feeding Programme now runs in three states.

He said the Buhari administration has also kicked-off the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme, GEEP.

“Under GEEP, soft loans ranging from N10,000 to 100,000 have been designed for artisans, traders, market women among others. Already, thousands of cooperatives, market women associations, farmers and enterprising youths, have been identified and registered for the purpose, on an ongoing basis, and the disbursement of the soft loans through the Bank of Industry have started since Nov 25, 2016.

“At the last count, for the first phase, beneficiaries have been drawn from the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abia, Adamawa, Bauchi, Delta, Imo, Kwara, Kano, Katsina, Lagos, Osun, Oyo, Ogun and Kogi States.”

The statement however said that regarding the GEEP, disbursements were halted and deferred until after the festive season but vetting and approval of beneficiaries are now being continued
Commenting on the 200,000 beneficiaries of the N-power programme, Mr. Akande said about 100,000 graduates have been physically verified, adding that they have started receiving their N30,000 stipends.

“Regarding the 200,000 beneficiaries of the N-Power programme, close to 50 per cent of the graduates, have now been physically verified, and started receiving their monthly stipends of N30,000 last week. A second batch of 300,000 unemployed graduates are expected to be
selected early this year to make up the half a million target set by the Buhari administration.

“The verified graduates are now being deployed to work as assistant teachers in schools, as community health aides and as agricultural extension workers, in more than 20 States of the Federation. These sates include; Abia, Adamawa, Bauchi, Anambra, Benue, Cross Rivers, Borno, Gombe, Edo, Jigawa, Katsina, Plateau, Kogi, Osun, Rivers, Zamfara, Niger, Sokoto, Ogun and Taraba.”

In the same vein, the government said it has also started the implementation of the National Home-grown School Feeding programme designed to feed 5.5 million school children for 200 school days in the first phase of the programme. According to the statement, the initial design was to
feed pupils in 18 States but funding challenges had affected an earlier take-off. It however said that the programme has now commenced in Osun, Kaduna and Anambra States, adding that more states are expected to join this new year.

The federal government reiterated its commitment to touching the lives of millions of vulnerable Nigerians, especially in the new year, in fulfilment of its Change agenda.

“In the new year, it is the plan of the Federal Government to scale up the implementation of the SIP to touch the lives of millions of Nigerians in fulfilment of its promises and in furtherance of its Change agenda,” Mr. Akande said.

Source: https://yaanews.com/nigerian-government-starts-paying-n5000-every-month-poorest-citizens

Oblang:



I guess u would have preferred the free money be shared with the likes of metuh,ffk and others through ATM dasuki...

obailala:
Is that the only alternative activity that can be executed with money?

nwosu35:
This ideology is very wrong.. . . Full stop

asuustrike2009:

What is the criteria for vulnerable poor citizens? How did the government got their data? How are we sure that the so called vulnerable poor citizens are what they imply? How are we sure the scheme wouldn't fail like SURE-P

our9ja:
Na everybody go school?

Lanretoye:
How do we knw the poorest citizens now?

jagugu88li:
In countries were this welfare services has been active normally, the focus is at first those places we call slums, villages etc

Villagers (headsman or whatever you have) already know who's who. Social development arranges a meeting with the villagers, present their reason for visiting and are handed a list. Home affairs or Social affairs match the names in their system to check and verify them. Obviously, if one has a paycheck, were taxes are drawn, then you get nothing. Same applies to slums. They have ward counsellors, whom are expected to know who's who, drawing a better judgement as to who really deserves social grant. Street hawkers, vendors, trolley pushers, disabled poor......also benefit. For as long as one has no tax number.

The beneficiaries are expected to renew cards, update their details whenever the government feels necessary, as a measure of eradicating the moles in the system.

Unfortunately, corruption wont stop because where civil servants talk money........the rest is inevitable. Question is, will the government be able to sustain it?

Rossikki:


Don't be heartless. The most vulnerable need a social safety net.

disc20:

“The nine pilot states were chosen because they have an existing Social Register that successfully identified the most vulnerable and poorest Nigerians through a tried and tested community based targeting (CBT) method working with the World Bank. However other states have already begun developing their Social Registers and would be included in subsequent phases of the CCT implementation.”

seguno2:


Yeah.
The head leads by example of N100 million for new kitchen utensils!
The head leads by example of N750 million rent for Aso Rock!!
The head leads by example of Aso clinic budget more than ALL Teaching hospitals combined but still goes to London to repair his ears!!!

Why is it so easy to fool us?
Why?

mapet:


Well from the report, it stated that the states had a social register of the poor, which met the set criteria of the social safety net scheme and vetted by World bank. In other words, it is left to the states to fulfil the first criteria, before qualifying.

I'm persuaded to believe that this scheme is sustainable and will not go the way of SURE-P. First off, it was painstakingly planned and now being executed. IF it were just for face-saving and political campaign schemes, cash would have been dolled out and the programme would have hit the rock

Oblang:


Is that the only thing the govt is doing?

Qmerit:


Am serious when I say the poor don't spend like the rich! Look at this, when the rich drive to fuel station to fill tank like 10k, the poor fill his bike if there's any with less than 1k, when the rich go to fast food and spend hell the poor go to mama put and spend meagre, when the rich make a pot of soup/stew 6k or more give the poor 1k soup would be ready sometime sweeter, when the rich buys a bottle of win for 5k,10k,20k,30k etc the poor buys spirit/ sapele water for 2h and be high. Comparisons re many.

alexiej:
Here are what I feel;

1. Nigeria has no database, so the govt can't know (and reach out to) the real people in need. - Who told you Nigeria has no database? Do we have a holistic database in the sense of it, may be no; but do we have data to start work with...absolutely yes!. States had had some forms of data collection in the past. Donor agencies and World bank had worked with state government to collect data in areas of health and community engagement for example. This is done in many sub-saharan African countries

2. This reminds us that while some idiots are buying new cars and getting furniture allowance and refusing to pay salaries, so many pple are so poor, 5k is a big thing to them. True dat.

3. The older generation used to talk about how that u could buy a car with less than 5k in their days. How has the naira falling so hard!

4. I believe investing into education would bring much better (long term) benefits. True! But we are in a special situation where a single approach (investing in education) is insufficient. You have to "incentivise" the "poor" to be able to consider sending their children to school and not on street trading or traded off as house-boys/house-girls. You have to make sure kids in school are fed, so as to boost their growth and learning capability

Summary? I'm not being pessimistic, but I don't see this working at all.