Mrs Maryam Uwais, Special Adviser to the President on Social Protection, says about 67 per cent of Nigerian population live below poverty line.

Uwais said this during a social protection Practitioners and Academics Dialogue on Thursday in Abuja.

According to her, some of the social issues that plaque Nigeria is high poverty, high unemployment rates, increased insecurity, gender inequality and poor literacy rates, among others.

She added that social protection was a response and a key strategy towards reducing poverty and socio-economic vulnerabilities in the population as well as to encourage G2p payments digitalisation and financial inclusion.

Uwais also said that the Federal Government has designed a four-point National Social Investment Programme (N-SIP), including Conditional Cash Transfer Programme (CCT).

“This involves the direct transfer of N5,000 to the targeted poor and vulnerable households.

“The Home Grown School Feeding (HGSF) assist vulnerable families, feed their classes, primary 1-3 school children one nutritious meal a day and provides an incentive to send them to school which is targeted to feed 5.5 million children.

“The N-Power Programme is designed to put 500,000 young Nigerian graduates on employment and empower or train 100,000 of non-graduates with necessary tools to create, develop and build projects that will change our communities, economy and nation.

“There is also Government Enterprise Empowerment Programme (GEEP), which is targeted financial inclusion and empowerment loans programme to deliver maximum impact to the economically under- represented groups that targets about 1.6 million beneficiaries,’’ said the presidential aide.

She said that for National Social Programme to move forward the cooperation of stakeholders was key in actualising it in terms of knowledge, resources and skills for transformative undertaking.

Uwais called on stakeholders to partner with the initiative, saying that the complex issues facing Nigeria would be met with comprehensive solutions by collective efforts to invest in the strongest and most promising sector.

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Lalasticlala Dominique Ishilove Mynd44

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Very obvious lies, by UN assesment, over 80 percent of Nigerians live below the poverty line.



APC, una wehdone oo.

All these portfolio achievements, does that means you have absorbed NPower participants into federal civil service or you planning to?

When it comes to A-choice employment, it goes to Cabals but when it's cosmetic employment, you remember us

that figure is even low..it should be atleast 80 percent........well the govt is trying but the issue of cabal and hijacking of social projects by some persons in gov't is what is killing us.....I pray the elite who have stolen nigetian funds will one day say they have had enough and want to distribute our wealth to all...

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Buhari should hide his head in shame. He has proven to Nigerians that he is a dullard.

All I see is the extension of our major foundational challenge - the sharing formula.
A government that calls a sharing/welfare scheme investment is not a serious one.

its funny how Nigeria that lack data will be given figures by estimation it should by 90%

Lekan111:
its funny how Nigeria that lack data will be given figures by estimation it should by 90%

Over 90%

tuniski:

Over 90%

Thank you, if you go to remote places you will know there is poverty, not staying in Abuja and just think of anything.

That figure will definitely be over 90%