The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji
Lai Mohammed, has said that the 2016
budget will lift millions of Nigerians out of
poverty and that there is no disagreement
whatsoever between the Executive and the
Legislature on the 2016 Budget, which has
been passed by the National Assembly.
''There is absolutely no rift, no issue of budget
being sent back. Things are just taking their
due course,'' the Minister said in Abuja on
Thursday when he visited the corporate
headquarters of the Leadership newspaper, as
part of his continuous engagement with
stakeholders in the media industry.
He said it was not true that the President has
refused to sign the Appropriation Bill passed
by the National Assembly, adding: ''It takes a
few days (after the passage) for the National
Assembly to clean up the document in
readiness for the President's assent.''
Speaking further on the budget, Alhaji
Mohammed said when it is eventually passed
into law, it will lift millions of Nigerians out of
poverty, thanks to the six focal areas of social
intervention contained therein.
“The first is the employment of 500,000
unemployed university graduates who we are
going to train as teachers. Two, we are also
employing 370,000 unemployed non-
graduates, people with National Diploma and
Technical Certificate. The third tranche is the
social intervention targeted at 1 million
people made up of market women, traders and
artisans to be trained and given loans through
their cooperatives.
“The fourth one is the home-grown One-Meal-
A-Day Programme. Here we are targeting
several millions of pupils in primary schools
all over Nigeria. The exponential effect of this
one meal a day is huge.
Even if we are targeting five million pupils and
we are giving each of them one egg a day, you
are talking about five million eggs that will be
provided by our poultry farmers. This will also
help to increase the demand for maize and
then you are going to employ people all
around,” he said.
The Minister further disclosed that the Federal
Government will also commence the
Conditional Cash Transfer to the most
vulnerable Nigerians, in collaboration with
some development partners, to bring succour
to such people.
He said that a special bursary scheme will
also come on stream to grant scholarships to
students of Science, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics in a deliberate effort to
support the students financially while also
bolstering the nation’s drive for
industrialization.
Alhaji Mohammed also disclosed that the sum
of N350 billion will soon be injected into the
economy to enable contractors to resume work
on abandoned infrastructural projects, with
timeline and target on project delivery and job
creation.
He thanked Nigerians for their patience and
the understanding of the challenges facing the
government, saying rather than give excuses,
the government was working round the clock
to alleviate the pains of Nigerians.
Source: www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/2016-budget-will-lift-millions-of-nigerians-out-of-poverty-lai-mohammed/

anoda lie again we dey look una oh

Oga Lai, nah where you dey since?

Another lie from the minister of propaganda.How will a budget where 80% is channel to the welfare of the president,his vice,legislatures and aso rock lift millions of nigerians when their welfare are not included?
#budget of corruption

Minister for lie lieeeee here u go again

Ok...lf Buhari agrees to sign it before 2019

Just a fat maybe

Here comes the father of lies. Where have you been sir? We miss ur lies

O biakwa ozo

lol... d man lucifer dey twale for..

dat his pix in d OP tho, dunno why I always laf seeing dat pix

Lai you've been a bit quiet of late.. we miss your blatant lies

Sure, the padded budget will do miracles

I have really missed your lies. Mr lai

expecting the presidency to come and talk their own. TALK UR OWN MAKE NIGERIA BETTER.

Parasitic liar & pathologic father of lies.Lying Liar Lai Muhammed.Look mouth twisted like fowl yansh because of lying.

Where Is The $2.3bn Fund U.S Remitted To Buhari To Help Fight Poverty? .

Tomorrow nah...we go hear a counter statement. GOVT OF....." TALK YOUR OWN...MAKE I TALK MY OWN"