The Federal Government on Thursday launched a community-based single register of the poor and vulnerable aimed at reducing extreme poverty in the country.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo launched the register at the end of a three-day Social Protection Cross-Learning Conference in Abuja.

Osinbajo was represented at the conference by Mrs Maryam Uwais, the Special Adviser to the President on Social Investment.

The Vice President said that about 120 million Nigerians, representing 60 per cent of the population, lived on less than two dollars per day.

“For us as a government, tackling this problem is crucial to ensuring inclusive growth where all Nigerians are part of the country’s development process.

“In our resolve to address this problem, we decided to formulate a National Social Safety Net Programme (NASSAP) which is a single register that will remove errors of inclusion and exclusion.



“ It will also insulate beneficiaries selection from political influence and traditional distortions,’’ Osinbajo said.

He said the single register was established on the basis of a well-thought out community-based targeting approach where communities would be able to identify the poor households from amongst them.

Osinbajo said a manual had been developed that would guide the establishment of the register of the poor.

He said it would guide them to ensure that state governments, development partners and other interested organisations have confidence in the process.

“This platform can then be utilised for their own interventions given our current limited resources, the need to maximise the benefits of the use of single register cannot be overemphasised.’’

Mr Muhammad Wudil, the Chairman House Committee on Poverty Alleviation and Social Services, said that the committee was working hard to reduce poverty in the country.

Wudil said that the committee had resolved to reduce poverty to minimal level in the next four years.

“We are working hard to meet the first target of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on addressing poverty by supporting programmes that would create jobs and alleviate poverty,’’ he said.

Meanwhile, information obtained by NAN on the single resister manual for poor and vulnerable indicate that it would redress the inability of previous efforts to address poverty.

The manual indicated that first round of the single register established across seven states of Bauchi, Cross River, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Osun and Oyo was a product of Youth Employment and Social Support Operations (YESSO).

NAN also reports that the three-day conference was organised by National Social Safety Nets Coordinating Office (NASSCO).

NAN also reports that NASSCO is under the Office of the Vice President and it is working in collaboration with Youth Employment and Social Support Operation of the Federal Ministry of Finance. (NAN)

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It is a welcome development and I pray it is well implemented.

We have laudable programms in Nigeria and very poor implementation.

May God make it eazy!

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
bubu just devised a means to loot money
500billion for the poor who are 99% northerners abi?
ok o
we are watching
nigeria is not up to a zoo, calling it a zoo is an insult to the well organized animals who are well taken care of in the zoo
it is no more news that bubu is a certified dullard, a curse a clueless bigot infact SATAN himself
and if you voted bubu, you are a demon
quote me anytime

TheBiafran:
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
bubu just devised a means to loot money
500billion for the poor who are 99% northerners abi?
ok o
we are watching
nigeria is not up to a zoo, calling it a zoo is an insult to the well organized animals who are well taken care of in the zoo
it is no more news that bubu is a certified dullard, a curse a clueless bigot infact SATAN himself
and if you voted bubu, you are a demon
quote me anytime

IPOB representing.........

Buhari is supposed to rule Nigeria for like 12years.

Thank God am alive to witness this change, as usual when the dividends of change starts coming out the more, Wailers will say; Osunbade is the brain behind. It just like the case of Idiagbo in 1983,........lolz

Please don't just #standwithBuhari but also
#pray4Buhar to succeed.

By the time the communities where these register will be placed starts to demand for extral register like a student writing examination, you will know that we have more than 120million people living under a dollar.

Hungerbad can testify to this

hmmnnn, let's see if it's gonna work out as planned...

Buhari wants to pay the underage almajiri that brought him to power

chriskosherbal:
It is a welcome development and I pray it is well implemented.

grandeur delusion

This man should do what is important and stop trying to bribe the people with other things!!!!!!!!!!!!

Promise FULFILMENT loading......



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vanity upon vanity...

Nonsense because it will never reach to the poor Nigerians

Another promise?

D register go full b4 d north go write their names finish.. they hv d highest population of poor and vulnerable and to tink they hv ruled nigeria more dan any oda part of d country

No Thanks!

Just send all the money to the North.

The capital of poverty.

Jokers everywhere.

Buhari cannot sustain petrol and power supply but wants to embark on money looting venture through welfarism.

What defines poor and vulnerable in Nigeria?

Ok

FWJOBSNG:


IPOB representing.........

Zombie Talking

Just make sure we don't have poor and vulnerable 'ghosts' on the register.

TheBiafran:
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
bubu just devised a means to loot money
500billion for the poor who are 99% northerners abi?
ok o
we are watching
nigeria is not up to a zoo, calling it a zoo is an insult to the well organized animals who are well taken care of in the zoo
it is no more news that bubu is a certified dullard, a curse a clueless bigot infact SATAN himself
and if you voted bubu, you are a demon
quote me anytime

Typical

Good development. But I think they meant 1 dollar/day

A wealth transfer in the midst of an economic crisis ?

For a country that cannot even conduct a real credible census since the 1950s, now we want to create a registry for the poor ?

N500b down the drain.

Mark my words.

Hope it works out.

Na senior civil servants family members name go full am including their sons and daughters, then maybe them fit pity like 20% real poor and vulnerable people

plaetton:
A wealth transfer in the midst of an economic crisis ?

For a country that cannot even conduct a real credible census since the 1950s, now we want to create a registry for the poor ?

N500b down the drain.

Mark my words.

Is that not CORRUPTION?
Is it stealing?