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Nairaland / General / NDE-FCT Flags Off Post-sadts , Small Stock Goat Production Training by Leadership86(f): 2:05pm On Sep 08, 2022
NDE-FCT Flags off Post-SADTs , Small Stock Goat Production Training


BY BLESSING BATURE, ABUJA


The National Directorate of Employment( NDE-FCT) has flagged off post - sustainable agricultural development training scheme, Post-SADTs and Small stock goat production training as part of its strategic resettlement scheme to reduce the rate of unemployment and cushion the impacts of poverty in the country.

The Director General of the NDE Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo represented by Mrs Harris Okolie said the resettlement scheme will not only cushion the impacts of poverty in the land but is also capable of transforming the lives of the participants if they are diligent and serious minded, and charged participants to be serious with the training so as to grab this life transforming skills to better their lives.

Also speaking, the state coordinator, NDE-FCT, Mr. Noble Chimereze charged participants not to jeopardize the opportunity or take the training for granted, adding that millions of Nigerians are looking for such opportunity to better their lives.

Earlier, the head of department, REP of the NDE- FCT Mr. Chukwuma Jinawa said the training was a resettlement based training targeted at training and empowering men and women who will in turn train others to become economically independent through agro based business opportunities.

According to him, 50 participants are to be trained on small stock goat production using the revolving model empowerment and upon successful completion of the training, N150,000 will be given to each of the participants as start up pack. While another 50 will be trained under the Post- sustainable agricultural development training scheme, and will be empowered with N100,000 each as start up pack at the end of the training,

Adding that aside the startup packs all participants will be supported with N2,000 each for their transportation on monthly basis as the training last.

Jinawa advised the participants to maintain diligence while the training lasts, adding that the directorate would provide support mainly to serious trainees after the completion of their training.

In her remark, Comfort Olubodu, one of the participants, appreciated the federal government for its show of concern to the plight of youths. She assured that the training would go a long way in cushioning the hardship in the society.

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Nairaland / General / NDE-FCT Trains Youths On POP Installation, CCTV Others by Leadership86(f): 1:39pm On Sep 08, 2022
NDE-FCT Trains Youths On POP Installation, CCTV Others

By Blessing Bature, Abuja


As part of the avowed commitments of the federal government of Nigeria to bring 100million Nigerians out of poverty, the National Directorate of Employment NDE-FCT has engaged not fewer than 30 unemployed youths on various skills under the Environmental Beautification Training Scheme.

The Director General of the NDE, Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo who was ably represented by the NDE-FCT state coordinator, Mr. Noble Chimereze said during the orientation program for the 30 participants that NDE has remained passionate about reducing poverty in the land through profitable skill engagement, that will turn fortunes of participants from job seekers to job providers.

Fikpo charged participants to be business minded, submit themselves to be trained by the Master trainers on their choice of skills so as to better their and that of the people around them.

Also speaking, the HOD Special Public works Department of the NDE- FCT, Sani Barau Nadappo, said the Environmental Beautification Training Scheme is a very robust scheme ranges from; satellite installation, CCTV Cameras installation, projection, POP making and installation, adding that the participants will be sent to various competent organizations that will train them within a period of 3months.

Nadappo said that participants will be given N2,000 each, every months to support their transportation and upon completion of the three months training, NDE is going to empower participants with start up packs that will enable them to be economic independent and contribute their quota to the economic development of the nation.

Appreciating the NDE, one of the participants John Chobo thanked the NDE management for giving them the opportunity to be part of the training, saying the training will go a long way to improving their livelihood.

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Romance / Be Gender-responsive In Your Reportage, NGO Tasks Nigerian Journalists by Leadership86(f): 3:02pm On Jun 24, 2022
Be gender-responsive in your reportage, NGO tasks Nigerian journalists



The Gender Strategy Advancement International (GSAI), a non-profit organisation, has called on Nigerian journalists to take decisive commitment by being gender-responsive in their reportage.

Ms Adaora Onyechere, Executive Director, GSAI, made the call at a two-day capacity building workshop for reporters and editors of various media organisations on Thursday in Abuja.

The event has its theme as “Media Independence to Promote Women’s Economic Inclusion and Gender Accountability in Governance”.

The event also has the support of MacArthur Foundation and the Wole Soyinka Center for Investigative Journalism.

Onyechere said the event, which is a ‘train the trainees’ workshop aimed at pushing for policies that affect women to be implemented and ensuring that the government were held accountable to gender issues.

“This training is put together to get the media to ask the right questions when it comes to gender inclusion and under this matter, we just launched our baseline report.

“Which revealed that statistics of women from 1999 till date, in governance, in politics and the way government has tailored their gender budget has totally been null and void.

“For a population that has over 49.2 per cent of women in population, being disenfranchised not only during politics and also in the economy, it is a serious problem.

“And there is a need for evaluating and looking at what government has done about that so far, which has become very important,” she said.

The executive director also added that the 35 per cent affirmative action must be taken seriously by government at all levels by ensuring that women are given appointive positions.

Mr Ezenwa Nwagwu, Convener, Say No Campaign, said laws coming from the legislative chambers should be gender-driven and implementation must be adhered with.

“For appointive positions, there must be discretions. At that point, you have to be balanced and there should be no discrimination.

“Gender issues does not end with women alone, it is about boys, girls, women and men in a lens that ensures that everything is equitable and just.

“We are going to have conversations with political parties, to create more seats in parliaments.

“For instance, there should be certain seats that should be given to persons living with disabilities, women and marginalised groups,” he said.

A participant at the workshop, Ms Diana Omueza, a correspondent with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) appreciated the group for the training, adding that it had exposed her to be gender-sensitive in her reportage.

She called on her colleagues in the media to be responsible in their reportage, as they have the greatest responsibility to give marginalized groups a voice.

Another participant, Mr Emmanuel Ehijene, a reporter with Plus TV Africa, said the training had made him to understand the plights of the marginalised and he has learnt how to approach gender-based issues as he carries out his duties.
Politics / Group Calls On Party Delegates To Be Prudent, Eschew Personal Temptations by Leadership86(f): 3:50pm On May 26, 2022
Group Calls On Party Delegates To Be Prudent, Eschew Personal Temptations


Blessing Bature, Abuja

The Grassroot Mobilisation Initiative for Good Governance at a situation assessment meeting held in Abuja on Monday called on party delegates to be prudent with candidates selection and eschew personal temptations and place the nation's interest and the future of our children above every other consideration.

The Chairman, Board Of Trustees, Mr. Joseph Yobo disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja that delegates must avoid costly adventures that would end up producing incompetent and inept political leaders who will continue to exploit the people, thereby thriving on emotional-driven courses, sowing seed of communal discord, causing divisions and leaving the people more insecured and impoverished.

Yobo noted that the rising level of desperation particularly for the various parties presidential tickets was highlighted that the usual desperate efforts being exerted by politicians to gain the support of their party delegates by every means and tactics, including compromise through financial seduction is at an alarming high.

According to him, With the emerging trends in the country that are pregnant with complications and unforeseen consequences, it has become imperative to call the attention of all the various party delegates as to whom responsibility would ultimately lie if democracy and the future of Nigerian children become endangered.

He said, this is important and urgent as already, the presidential nominating contests in the two major parties: the ruling All Progrossives Congress (APC) and main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are causing apprehension to the extent that they may not vote competent nominees who are credible and efficiently ready to govern or even represent the interests of majority of the parties' supporters.

"We are thus compelled by decent patriotism and love of country and fellow citizenship to act quickly to call the attention of delegates in all the parties to the need for caution, extra prudence and vigilance in the discharge of the solemn responsibility of selecting credible candidates to be presented to the Nigerian voters".

Also Speaking, The National Coordinator, Samaila Musa, It is important to point out here that the fate of the entire country and future of democracy is solely dependent on the manner in which the party delegates discharge the candidate selection role entrusted in them.

"As they go about discharging this trust, they must bear in mind that Nigerian voters would at the end of the day be left with no option than to be bound to the limited space for choice among the only alternatives presented for them irrespective of their credibility and merit or the lack of same".

"Their actions should particularly be guided by the reality that the peoples trust in the government is at a historical low. Often times elections may not deliver the kind of political leaders the people need. Yet, governance in a democracy is still considered the preferred system which is why primary elections by political parties must place sufficient emphasis on evaluating nominees with an eye toward competence at governing and strong vision for the Nation's future".

"We caution the delegates to bear in mind that every action(s), they take today, will not go unnoticed and in the fullness of time, they will be called to account for the consequences of their commission or omission".
Politics / Int'l Family Day: FG Empower 30 Women With 25,000 Grant by Leadership86(f): 3:15pm On May 26, 2022
Int'l Family Day: FG Empower 30 Women With 25,000 Grant


Blessing Bature, Abuja

To mark the international family day, Federal government has empower thirty families with the sum of twenty five thousand naira (25,000) as a gant to improve their well-being.

The Honourable minister of Humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar-Farouq who disclosed this on Thursday on the celebration of international day of families, theme "Families and Urbanization".

The Minister who was ably represented by the Director of Humanitarian, Alh Ali Grema said as part of this year celebration, the Ministry has identified and selected Thirty (30) families to be empowered with the sum of Twenty Five Thousand Naira (N25,000,00) only as Grant to improve their wellbeing that one of the problem families experience is the problem of financial constraints as most of them solely depend on social grants to provide for their basic needs.

Farouq said one of the major challenges facing families is the problem of domestic violence, especially gender based violence, adding that we need to address the violence within our families and be good role models for our children.

She noted in order to mark the families day, the ministry of humanitarian affairs initiated various programs and activities towards uplifting the living standards and well-being of the families.

According to her, communities must promote an understanding of disability issues and mobilise support for the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with disabilities. People with disabilities form part of families and communities and they have a right to be heard, to be understood and to evolve like everyone else. The marginalisation of people with disabilities limits their potential to contribute to society.

The minister re-emphasise the need for families and communities to support and protect people with disabilities, adding people with disabilities are members of families who are mostly neglected in terms of care and understanding. These family members sometimes are ostracised by their siblings such that they end up living in absolute poverty due to lack of socio-economic support.

She called on all sectors of society to work with the ministry in a quest to build strong families. These efforts must start with programmes to strengthen families by protecting vulnerable members of society such as children, women, Persons with disabilities and older persons.

Also, Chairman house committee on poverty Alleviation, RT, Dr Abdullahi Balarabe Salame who was represented by hon Mohammed Bawa said the committee has in the past 3 years built a very cordial relationship with the ministry and has supported all its programmes particularly those that were designed to address poverty at all levels and through legislative intervention.

He said the Committee has always ensured that funds were appropriated to drive these programmes, the house will continue to strengthen the synergy and support policies Buhari's of President Muhammadu and programmes administration as it addresses poverty and families values.

The permanent Secretary, Ministry of Humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development Dr Nasir Sani Gwarzo who was represented by Director of planning research and statistics of the ministry Mr Raf Obi called for all hands to be on deck to ensure that families are protected.

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Politics / Humanitarian Ministry Partner NDLEA To Tackle Substance Abuse by Leadership86(f): 8:15pm On May 24, 2022
Humanitarian Ministry Partner NDLEA To Tackle Substance Abuse


Blessing Akpakpan, Abuja


The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development is collaborating with the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA to tackle substance and drug abuse in the country.

At a Psychosocial Support and Integration of Victims of Drug and Substance Abuse held at NDLEA Rehabilitation Facility in Gudu, Abuja on Tuesday, the Minister Sadiya Umar Farouq said that the objective of the collaboration is to free the society from the scourge of drugs and substance abuse which has caused untold misery to individuals and families.

SA media to the minister, Nneka Ikem Anibeze said in a statement that the Minister who was represented by the Director Humanitarian Affairs Department, Alhaji Ali Grema stated that the federal government is determined to strengthen action and cooperation to achieve the goal of a free drug society.

“This meeting is part of our commitment to deal with the menace and issues surrounding drug abuse and provide an avenue for the expression of collaborative commitment of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development with the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency to combat the problem in all its forms.

“As a Ministry charged with the responsibility of Social Development, we want to begin a process of focusing on the socio- economic challenges faced by the clients of illicit drugs and substance abuse, not only in Abuja but throughout the federation”.

The Minister called on youths in particular to refrain from abusing drugs and other harmful substances as they are injurious to health with potentials of destroying their future.
Umar Farouq noted that the most effective tool to combat drug use is to strengthen prevention programmes and treatment for victims.

“In view of this, the Ministry will provide National Social Investment Programme opportunities for victims under rehabilitation by the NDLEA. Clients will undergo training in their various choice skills and will be equipped with starter packs for easy integration into the society”.

Earlier, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA Brig. Gen. Mohaammed Buba Marwa (Rtd) OFR who was represented by the Agency’s Secretary, Barrister Shedrack Haruna described the programme as laudable and the first of its kind.

“The use of psychoactive substances such as alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine as well as prescription medications exert tremendous toll on the individual, families and the society. Substance abuse affects the physical, social and psychological levels of the user and family members.
“Findings from the National Drug Use Survey (2018) conducted by UNODC reviewed that 14.3 million Nigerians aged 15-64 years had used psychoactive substances in the past year for non- medical purposes. More worrisome is that out of this figure, about 370,000 Nigerians have drug use disorder and in every 4 drug users in Nigeria, 1 is a woman.

“Globally, there is a shift in drug policy which sees drug as a public health issue. Therefore, reducing the demand for drugs depends to a large extent on the successful treatment and reintegration of people who use drugs”.

The Chairman congratulated the clients for being the first beneficiaries of the Social Investment Programmes and charged them to be good ambassadors.

He also thanked the ministry for providing starter packs to equip the clients with skills to facilitate their rehabilitation and reintegration to their families and society.

The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs donated 20 Tablets, 5 industrial Gas Cookers, 5 industrial frying pans and spoons for the rehabilitation of the clients.

At the occasion also was Dr Ngozi Madubuike Director Drug Demand Reduction NDLEA, John Yakubu, Director General Services Department, Tokumbo Rufai Director Human Resource Management and Sule Chogudo Director Social Development.

Nadia Muhammed -Soso, Head Special Duties, Sarah Ogah, Executive Director The Amina Agbo Foundation TAAF, Nsikak Okon Team Lead N-Power, Barrister Zainab Halim, actress Jumoke Odetola and other dignitaries spoke at the event.

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Politics / APC Screening Panel Disqualifies Kogi Lawmaker Zacharias Over Alleged Certificat by Leadership86(f): 7:30pm On May 24, 2022
APC Screening Panel Disqualifies Kogi Lawmaker Zacharias Over Alleged Certificate Scandal



The All Progressives Congress, (APC) Screening Panel has Disqualifies Kogi Lawmaker, David Idris Zacharias Over Alleged Certificate Forgery and Scandal.


The screening committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has disqualified David Idris Zacharias, a member representing Idah, Ibaji, Igalamela Ofu Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives from re-contesting in the party’s primary

Nairaland gathered that the lawmaker was disqualified following a petition that he used forged certificates and different names at different times.

We gathered that the lawmaker was disqualified following a petition that he used forged certificates and different names at different times.

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Nairaland / General / 2023: FG To Enrol Refugees, IDP Returns Children In Primary Schools by Leadership86(f): 5:09pm On Nov 30, 2021
2023: FG To Enrol Refugees, IDP Returns Children In Primary Schools


Blessing Bature-Akpakpan, Abuja


The Federal commissioner, National Commission for Refugees Migrants and internally displaced persons has yesterday pledges federal government commitment to ensure the enrollment of all school age refugees, IDP and returnees children to primary school by 2023 and to provide equal opportunities for secondary and tertiary Education.

The Commissioner, NCFRMI, Hajiya Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim made this known on Tuesday during the implementation of the global Compact on refugees (GCR) in Nigeria.

Sulaiman-Ibrahim noted that Nigeria will strengthen the protection environment by ensuring the integrity of the asylum system in line with international legal instruments and freedom of movement for Refugees, IDP and returnees; maintaining it's open-door policy; and promoting legal pathways to durable solutions.

She said, we will ensure all durable solutions for refugees and IDP are effective available and accessible, in consultation with affected populations and host Communities, with particular attention to children, youth, women, the elderly, persons with disa, and other vulnerable groups, adding that Nigeria will reinforce national, state and local capacity to ensure the sustainability of returns local integration.

She Reiterates it's commitment to pursuing regional approaches to addressing force displacement, including through enhance information exchange on security and population movements.

To personalized the pledges, the NCFRMI, the FMHADMSD and the UNHCR have produced roadmap, which will serve as a guide to the implementation of the pledges with appropriate coordination structures and mechanism for follow up, the roadmap lays out concrete next steps and priorities, identifies operational entry points and defines indicator for measuring short and longer term progress in areas such as health, Education, water, sanitation, jobs and livelihood, energy, infrastructure, solutions and protection capacity, she said.

UNHCR Representative to Nigeria, Chansa Kapaya said Nigeria's achievements to show solidarity with displaced persons and affected host communities predates the formal adoption of the global Compact on refugees in 2018, Today, Nigeria has in place a favorable protection environment for refugees and has made progress in terms of localizing and operationalizing the GCR, starting from favourable asylum policy and provision to refugees, IDP and Returnees to affected host communities.

In the same vain, the House of Representatives, committee on IDPs and Refugees, Muhammad Umar Jega commended the UNHCR for all their efforts to fulfil the pledges, adding that their Continued support, collaboration and synergy will help to bring maximum result.

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Nairaland / General / Refugees Commission Reiterates Commitment To Deliver Mandate by Leadership86(f): 10:34pm On Nov 28, 2021
Refugees Commission Reiterates Commitment To Deliver Mandate


Blessing Bature-Akpakpan, Abuja

The Federal Commissioner of National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), Hajiya Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim has said that the Commission is committed to deliver on its mandate and put the country on the global map of addressing issues on Refugees and Migrants.

This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Sampson Ikemitang, the Head of Press and Public Relations of the Commission on Sunday in Abuja.

Sulaiman-Ibrahim who assumed duty at the Commission about five months ago said agents of darkness and unpatriotic personalities have strategised to destroy the good works that the commission was doing.

According to her, President Munammadu Buhari and Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq were not wrong to have moved her to the Commission be that they wanted the best for the Commission, because, the goals and objectives of the Commission are bigger than the ambition of any individual.

She said, "When I assumed office about five months ago, I promised to work in peace, harmony, equity and justice to achieve the mandate of the Commission as a team and as individuals, saying don't forget that whatever I am doing in the Commission now is a complementation of the former head of the Commission, because, he had done a lot concerning 2021 budget, contracts and expenditures before I took over.

"However, I want to affirmed and inform the world that, the commission is now.poised to deliver on its mandate and put Nigeria on the global map of refugees and Migrants.

"We are currently motivating our staff and making efforts to train them and build their capacity in addressing issues of IDPs, Refugees, Migrants and other Persons of Concern. We are focus and on course to deliver on our mandate," she stressed.

Sulaiman-Ibrahim explained that people who were hell bent on assassinating her character with fictitious allegations and publications should embrace truth and stop the spread of falsehood.

"Evidence silence falsehood. NCFRMI is open for audit. I am just five months old on this position. We have a lot to do to deliver on our mandate and we shall not allow agents of distraction and unpatriotic elements to bring us down.

" We are determined to move the Commission forward to the promise land, where President Buhari, Sadiya Umar Farouq and the UN would be proud of.

"I love all my staff and would never intimidate anyone, because love, peace and unity is all we profess at the Commission. This has helped in bringing the staff closer to deliver on the Commission's mandate.

" The Commission respects the procurement Act and would never act contrary to it. I am operating an open door policy. I allow all staff to come to me and contribute ideas on how to move the Commission forward," she said.

She stressed that the Commission is doing a lot in term of healthcare and welfare for refugees and IDPs.

However, she emphasised that in 2022, the Commission would ensure that Refugees Migrants and IDPs were carried along frequently in the area of health, social relevance and skill acquisition to enhance their livelihood.

"I called.on all well meaning Nigerians to disregard any malicious story or reports against me and the Commission, because, the Commission is on course to greatness and it is bigger than personal interest of person (s) who do not wished it well".

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Nairaland / General / NSCC Begins Drafting Of 10 Year Strategic Document For Ageing by Leadership86(f): 7:58pm On Nov 02, 2021
NSCC begins drafting of 10 year strategic document for ageing




The National Senior Citizens Centre (NSCC) has started drafting of work plans for a-10 year strategic plan development to enhance the lives of senior citizens in all parts of the country.

Dr Emem Omokaro, the Director-General of the Centre disclosed this at a five-day National writing workshop on Monday in Abuja.

Omokaro said the journey started with an inception meeting when all the stakeholders came together, defined a roadmap and made inputs on planned activities, pledging to follow through and develop a 10-year strategy.

“So far, it has been fruitful, rising from the inception meeting and with plan of activities. We collected materials that will enable us to develop and set a contextual framework, which is also a process that we have carry through.

“Also, we were determined and we set deadline for the northern zonal consultation with stakeholders. It was a fruitful consultation with eight categories from the representatives of 19 states in the Northernn Zone plus the FCT.

“We went to Lagos and had 17 states represented. We also had the NSCC Private Sector Roundtable where we harvested so much ideas.The inputs have been harmonised.

“Now, we want to critically look at these inputs and all leading us to now proceed the drafting workshop. At the end we are going to have a document that is legitimate, national and everybody will hear their voices in it,” Omokaro said.

Dr Joy Ufere-Isikima, Technical Officer for Healthy, Age and CAH from WHO office in Abuja, said the organisation had been in the process, starting from the development of the multi-stakeholders ageing policies.

“For WHO, I always say that we have a mandate when it comes to ageing to ensure we improve healthy aging across the whole world by giving a voice to ensure they are participants and interventions that is for for them, reach them wherever they are and the religion they belong to.

“We have come a long way and we are winning. I am so excited to see that we are walking the talk and that multi stakeholders are involved. We are part of it and will.comtimie to be part of it.

“We are supporting this process. It is not about developing a beautiful document as usual, but to make sure we implement them to the last.

“Also, we will take stock of what is implemented, what we have done well and where we can go back to make it better,” Ufere-Isikima.

Similarly, Mr Saheed Mustapha, the Senior Policy and Advocacy Specialist, Save the Children International said the Technical Working Group (TWG) had already been inaugurated.

“The TWG is the committee that is supposed to drive the development of strategy. The strategy belongs to NSCC primarily, but belongs to Nigeria as a whole.

“That is the reason why we deliberately decided that we need to have an approach that is participatory and will ensure that all critical stakeholders are able to contribute to developing a robust strategy.

” Ageing is a cross cuttingg issue; no one organisation can adequately address the issues of ageing. There are different dimensions to the challenges that the senior ctizens face.

“There are issues around health, livelihood, income, security and all the different domains that we have been seeing since we started this conversation,” Mistapha said.

The News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) reports that after the draft of the document, it would be validated by Civil Society Oganisations and expanded stakeholders, before passing it to the board of the centre and other processes.

It is believe that when implemented, the plan will go a long way to positively impact on all senior citizens across the 774 local government councils across the federation. (NAN)
Nairaland / General / NSIP: FG Trains 350 Mobile Money Agents In North West by Leadership86(f): 6:14pm On Oct 25, 2021
NSIP: FG Trains 350 mobile Money Agents In North West


Blessing Bature-Akpakpan, Abuja


The Federal government has begun training of 350 agents for Mobile Money Transactions in the North West zone of the country.

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Sadiya Umar Farouq who flagged off the training programme on Monday at the Coronation Hall, Government House, Kano State said that the youth empowerment event is specially designed to address youth restiveness, generate gainful employment and create wealth nationwide.

SA media Nneka Ikem Anibeze said In a statement that Farouq added that President Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration has paid more attention towards alleviating poverty amongst the vulnerable in the country, adding that In the last 5 years, over 12 million households have benefitted from NSIP interventions. In view of the life-changing experience of beneficiaries of NSIP, President Buhari has graciously approved the expansion of the programme in all the clusters mainly to ensure that more lives are lifted out of poverty.

“The Mobile Money Agents’ Programme was introduced in 2020 to sustain the social inclusion agenda of President Buhari’s Administration. It is consistent with the President’s vision of lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty by 2030.

“The programme is designed to empower unemployed youths and develop their competence to operate as registered mobile money agents. This training will enable these beneficiaries to meet the minimum technical and business requirements for becoming mobile money agents and enhance their entrepreneurial competence to successfully start and manage mobile money businesses”.

Earlier, the state Focal Person Baba Aminu Zubair stated in his goodwill message, that Kano state has mostly benefited from federal government’s Social Investment Programmes and 11 schools currently have STEM Centres with 214 students as beneficiaries while 154,000 poor and vulnerable from 15 Local government councils received Conditional Cash Transfer.

He thanked the Federal government and the minister for the training of 60 Mobile Money Agents in the state while enumerating Kano state’s gains from government’s Social Investment Programmes, Kano state has 10 National Home Grown School Feeding Program aggregators, 12,258 cooks and vendors and 1,225,804 pupils receiving one nutritious meal each, under the school feeding program.

“We had 18,000 beneficiaries under N-Power Batches A& B and 13,000 under Batch C as well as 296 Independent Monitors, saying “Under GEEP 1.0, 250,000 beneficiaries in Kano state received interest-free loans while registration for GEEP 2.0 is ongoing while 88,400 rural women also benefited from government’s N20,000 one-off grant”.

After the five- day training , the beneficiaries will be formally registered with the Shared Agency Network Expansion Facility (SANEF) as Mobile Money Agents and will be provided with start-up Kits including a Point-of-Sale (POS) Machine, Fingerprint Scanner, chairs, tables and umbrellas and a token of N20,000.00.

A total of 1,850 youths selected from the 36 States and the FCT will be trained in payments through the network of agents providing financial-related services under other components of NSIP with 350 of them from the North West states namely Kaduna, Katsina, Kano, Kebbi, Sokoto, Jigawa,, Zamfara.

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Nairaland / General / School Feeding: FG Handover 150,000 Feeding Utensils To Jigawa State by Leadership86(f): 4:45pm On Sep 20, 2021
School Feeding: FG handover 150,000 Feeding Utensils To Jigawa State

Blessing Bature, Abuja

The federal government through the Federal ministry of humanitarian affairs Disaster Management and social development has handed over about 150,000 Utensils for Beneficiaries of the National Home-Grown School Feeding Program to Jigawa state government.

The minister of humanitarian affairs, Disaster Management and social development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq who was ably represented by the Permanent secretary, Bashir Nura Alkali made this known during the handing over of the utensils to Jigawa State Government yesterday that this program at its core is designed to address poverty in all its forms and is a collaboration between the federal government and States where the federal government is responsible for the release of funds, guidelines, policies, and monitoring, while the states carry out the day-to-day implementation including procurement of food items, selection of cooks and vendors who prepare, cook and serve the meals for the pupils.

Farouq stated that the benefits of this program and its impact on the lives and livelihood of individuals, groups and communities is clear, evident and  undeniable. While addressing cross cutting issues of Hunger, Malnutrition and Poverty, we have thus far recorded over 9 million pupils on the program being fed by  over 100,000 Cooks across the Nation. In Jigawa State alone, feeding is taking place in 2,180 primary schools, involving 490,874 pupils, 5,267 cooks in 27 LGA across the state.

"We are here today to hand over about 150,000 feeding utensils to the Jigawa State Government for the use of the benefitting pupils Of the National Home-Grown School Feeding Program. This is in addition to the over 500’000 feeding utensils the FG provided to the Jigawa State School Feeding Program in 2018.

"We are pleased to note that we have also commenced deployment of interventions  within the National Home-Grown School Feeding Program that will address the identified gaps including a Nationwide enumeration exercise across the Nation with the objective of verifying the existing data, upgrading the quality of data, and updating our records to accommodate the scaling up of the program with an  additional 5 million beneficiaries as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari.
 
She said additionally an operational review is underway, fully supported by experts and technical partners to ensure sure that this program succeeds in its objectives and capitalizes on gains and benefits such as women empowerment, supporting the education of the girl child, creating employment, and improving intergovernmental collaboration. 

She said, the ministry has deployed an extensive, layered and technology-supported  monitoring system that will give real time information of how the program is being implemented and the areas that need urgent intervention and correction, adding that this intervention today, is only one out of the several strategic plans of our Ministry that seeks to ensure that the target pupils have the best experience of hygiene and safety during their consumption of these  free meals.

Minister assured that the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development will continue to improve service delivery on all its social interventions  and our leadership  role on the National Home-Grown school feeding program. I wish to sincerely thank HE the Executive Governor of Jigawa State for his support to this programme at all times. I wish to also commend our NSIP focal person and programme manager for their diligence in ensuring the prominence of the state under th8s programme.

The Jigawa state governor, Alhaji Muhammad Basaru Abubakar who was ably represented by the deputy governor Mal Umar Namadi appreciated the honorable minister for her hardwork and courage, "we say a very big thank you to Mr president, we the Jigawa people will never forget all these efforts of Mr President for the market, Traders moni, N-Power, and school feeding Programme it is a very big support for the Jigawa state people.

"We can not thank Mr President enough and minister for what they have been doing to us but we also ask for more because we know Baba and the Minister have that act of supporting the poor and Vulnerables, he said.

Nairaland / General / Npower Batch A, B: FG Commence Payment Of Outstanding Allowance by Leadership86(f): 6:16pm On Sep 17, 2021
NPower Batch A, B: FG Commence Payment Of Outstanding Allowance

Blessing Bature-Akpakpan, Abuja



The Federal Government, through the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, has commenced the payment of outstanding allowances of batch A and B of the 2016 and 2018 N-Power volunteers nationwide.

According to a statement signed and made available to newsmen in Abuja Friday by the Permanent Secretary, Bashir Nura Alkali, N150,000.00 each will be paid to 9,066 volunteers, representing 5 months allowances, while the allowances 4,955 volunteers will be withheld, pending conclusion of further investigation.

The statement reads: “Following the payment system challenges faced by the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, which has been overcome, the Ministry has commenced the final payment of the arrears on the few outstanding allowances of Batches A and B N Power volunteers.

The accounts of these 14,021 volunteers were flagged in March 2020 by the Federal Government payment system, the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS), for various reasons including but not limited to: beneficiaries having multiple accounts, beneficiaries account receiving other payments such as salaries and allowances from multiple Federal Government Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs) on permanent employment or for participating in other schemes. These acts violate the regulations guiding the N-Power volunteer programme and could amount to gross misconduct and corruption.

"The Ministry carried out detailed investigation in collaboration with relevant government MDAs and so far the accounts of 9,066 volunteers were cleared for final payment. Based on this reality, the 5 months allowance arrears of these volunteers, totaling N150,000.00 each, is currently being paid. The allowances of the remaining 4,955 is withheld pending conclusion of further investigation. Where clear violations of the agreements are established, such violators will be subjected to appropriate sanctions as stipulated by the law.

"Contrary to some insinuations in the public domain, this process is a clear demonstration of the Ministry’s resolve to address this unfortunate incidence in a transparent manner for accountability and to forestall its future occurrence. As it has consistently maintained, the investigation caried out by the Ministry is in the best interest of the Country and has the major goal of institutionalizing the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) and ensuring its efficient management in line with Mr President’s resolve to ensure transparency and accountability in its implementation at all times.

"The Ministry regrets the delays experienced in concluding this process, but assures the public that transparency and accountability cannot be compromised in all its activities."

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Nairaland / General / GEEP: A Look At The Impact Of The Relief Loans On Beneficiaries by Leadership86(f): 6:57pm On Aug 29, 2021
GEEP: A Look At the Impact of the Relief Loans on Beneficiaries


The Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics said in 2020 that 40% or 83 million Nigerians live in poverty. Although Nigeria’s poverty profile for 2021 has not yet been released, it is estimated that the number of poor people will increase to 90 million, or 45% of the population in 2022 Blessing Bature-Akpakpan seeks to explicate the efforts of President Buhari led-administration at addressing the challenges of credit and financial inclusion for over 37 million Nigerians at the base of the pyramid who are involved in active commercial activity but have never had the opportunity to access loans.

In the last four years, GEEP has so far provided incremental loans of between N10,000 and N300,000 to about 2.3 million beneficiaries who are traders, artisans, enterprising youth, agricultural workers and other micro-service providers; under it's flagship Programmes tradermoni, marketmoni and farmermoni.

The Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) is an initiative by the Federal Government of Nigeria to provide financial inclusion and access to micro-credit for Nigerians at the bottom of the economic pyramid. It aims at providing capital to beneficiaries in an easily accessible way to grow their business and on-board these beneficiaries into the formal financial system through bank accounts, mobile wallets, and formal identities.

The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development in April 2020 activated the GEEP infrastructure for the purpose of providing urgent micro loans to petty traders and artisans nationwide to cushion the economic hardships of COVID-19. Recall that GEEP is the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme, one of the social intervention programmes, comprising TraderMoni, MarketMoni and FarmerMoni, and executed by the Bank of Industry. GEEP is a completely digitised programme where all eligible traders are captured into a database, verified via phone and facial recognition technology, and receive disbursements in mobile wallets.

The Programme was designed to give access to credit for poor and vulnerable people who are at the bottom of the economic pyramid this includes persons living with disability , the target beneficiaries will be people who are already engaged in business enterprises such as traders, artisans, enterprises (MSMEs) in furtherance of poverty eradication, Empowerment generation, growth and development of MSMEs throughout the federal republic of Nigeria.

These urgent micro loans are reaching 1,000,000 petty traders and artisans nationwide. Small and micro enterprises at the bottom of the economic pyramid have been hit hardest by lockdown restrictions. These micro loans are to cushion the income losses experienced during the lockdown.
All 1,000,000 traders benefitting from new GEEP loans nationwide, as well as all existing beneficiaries have a 3-month moratorium on their loans, as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari.

GEEP simply means Government Enterprise and Empowerment Program. It is a program introduced by the Buhari-led administration as part of the government’s mission to provide financial power to all qualified citizens of the country. Since the introduction of the program in 2016, many Nigerians have benefited from it and more are still expected to enjoy this financial aid later in the year.

A number of beneficiaries shared their relief at getting these loans, just at a time when they weren’t sure how to restart their various businesses, due to a loss of income over the past months.

Sharing his testimony on GEEP, Segun Ogungbero who is an artisan in Ogbomosho said he couldn’t access a micro-credit interest-free loan before GEEP that can boost his carpentry business but the arrival of GEEP however has enabled him an ordinary Nigerian artisan access to such facilities for the growth of his small business.

Also, Haruna Mohamed a farmer in Kano State couldn’t access credit facilities that can enable him purchase fertilizers and seedling for his farm and Chinyere a mother of three in Aba, couldn’t access loans that will help her acquire more textile products for her clothing business and appreciated president Buhari for coming up with this initiatives to cater for the needs of the Vulnerables.

For the past five (5) years, the GEEP programme has been able to target, and deliver credit to over 2.3 million people under the MSMEs demographic using Biometrics, Bank Verification Number (BVN) as digital collateral, mobile data capture and mobile wallets.

It was indeed a sight to behold when in 2019, the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo traversed markets across the country personally handing out loans to traders.

However, with poverty alleviation programmes as well as social development programmes now under the purview of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, the Ministry in the past two years of its existence, have effectively taken over and streamlined these programmes.

In line with President Buhari administration’s revolutionary mission of lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in the next ten years.

The Ministry has thus come up with GEEP 2.0, as a revamped and restructured version of the programme, GEEP 2.0 effectively expands its scope while unbundling the constituency of under-privileged and most vulnerable people by targeting particular segments.

Under GEEP 2.0 TraderMoni will give special attention to empowering under-privileged and marginalized youths who lack access to education, orphans, the disabled and abandoned out-of-school children, FarmerMoni will now promote agro-entrepreneurship by supporting farmers engaged in crop cultivation, livestock, poultry and fisheries while MarketMoni will empower marginalized women such as widows, divorcees, women in the Internally Displaced Camps, women who are bread-winners of their families and other women with entrepreneurial skills.

During the official launch of the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Program (GEEP 2.0), the Minister of Humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq said GEEP programme is a veritable tool designed to end poverty which targets the unbanked poor and vulnerable but skilled population that have always been left out on credit delivery programmes and is directed at providing soft and affordable loans to finance their businesses.

"Essentially, GEEP 2.0 is a continuation of the Buhari administration’s laudable empowerment drive committed to the upliftment of oppressed Nigerians we hope the programme will engender job creation, poverty alleviation, youth empowerment as well as enrich entrepreneurial skills acquisition amongst vulnerable groups.

Consequently upon taking up the reins of affairs over 6-years ago, President Muhammadu Buhari showed purposeful leadership and his empowerment drive by catering to this segment of the society, when in 2016 the Government Enterprise & Empowerment Programme (GEEP) was established under the National Social Investments Programmes (NSIP).

Farouq said so far over 12 million households has benefited from National Social Investment Programmes (NSIPs) and President Buhari has given gracious approval to the expansion and provide loans to an additional 1,000,000 beneficiaries, with emphasis to targeting small holder farmers in the year 2020/2021 across the country that the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Program (GEEP 2.0).

GEEP 2.0 is well coordinated and has an implementation model that accommodates representation at the Federal, State and Local Government levels. Part of the new strategies include an increase in the loan portfollo of TraderMon/ and Market Moni loans from N10,000.00 to N50,000.00, while the FarmerMoni is now N300,000 along with the provision of value chain and creation of digitat marketplace (E-platform) for beneficiaries to sell their products.
The minister said the GEEP currently remain the main driving force behind the poverty reduction in Nigeria and appreciate His Excellency, the Vice-President of federal Republic of Nigeria, whose office commenced the implementation of the NSIP. Without that solid foundation, we are able to transit to the current levels of implementation smoothly.

She called on all Nigerians who are specially targeted by the NSIP and indeed the GEEP to please take advantage of all that the programme offers so that the vision of Mr. President of lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in 2030 will unfailingly be accomplished.

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Nairaland / General / Nsips Impacted Over 12m Households, Targets Additional 1m Beneficiaries - FG by Leadership86(f): 5:46am On Aug 25, 2021
NSIPs impacted Over 12m households, targets additional 1m beneficiaries - FG

Blessing Bature-Akpakpan, Abuja

The federal government of Nigeria has disclosed that over 12 million households has benefited from National Social Investment Programmes (NSIPs) and President Buhari has given gracious approval to the expansion and provide loans to an additional 1,000,000 beneficiaries, with emphasis to targeting small holder farmers in the year 2020/2021 across the country.

Minister of Humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development made this known during the official launch of the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Program (GEEP 2.0) that GEEP programme is a veritable tool designed to end poverty which targets the unbanked poor and vulnerable but skilled population that have always been left out on credit delivery programmes and is directed at providing soft and affordable loans to finance their businesses.

Farouq said, "GEEP 2.0 is well coordinated and has an implementation model that accommodates representation at the Federal, State and Local Government levels. Part of the new strategies include an increase in the loan portfollo of TraderMon/ and Market Moni loans from N10,000.00 to N50,000.00, while the FarmerMoni is now N300,000 along with the provision of value chain and creation of digitat marketplace (E-platform) for beneficiaries to sell their products.

The minister said the GEEP currently remain the main driving force behind the poverty reduction in Nigeria and appreciate His Excellency, the Vice-President of federal Republic of Nigeria, whose office commenced the implementation of the NSIP. Without that solid foundation, we are able to transit to the current levels of implementation smoothly.

She called on all Nigerians who are specially targeted by the NSIP and indeed the GEEP to please take advantage of all that the programme offers so that the vision of Mr. President of lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in 2030 will unfailingly be accomplished. 

The Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo passed a vote of confidence on the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Development and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq on effective implementation of GEEP.

The Vice President who was represented by the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, said: “The GEEP is a baby of the presidency handed over to Madam Humanitarian to nurture and I have been asked to let you know that you have the full backings of their Excellences and the full confidence that you are up to the task of reaching out to the majority of the poor people in our country and alleviating their conditions.

“For many of us who live in the cities may not know the great impacts this programme is having on our people, many are in the villages whose annual income are not up to N10,000. So reaching out to them and extending a hand of fellowship is a major contribution to reducing poverty in our country. The focus is on the poor, if we don’t provide for them, inclusiveness would have failed in our bid to take them away from poverty.

“By reducing poverty, we are reducing diseases, we are banishing banditry, we would have succeeded in taking millions of our youths out of the reach of recruiters of terrorism; we would have attacked ignorance, we would have reduced mortality we would have unleashed the creativity of our people, as well as their enterprise which Nigerians are known for all over the world, Prof Osinbajo said.

On his part, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SSGF), Boss Mustapha who disclosed that over N400 billion is being spent annually on the implementation of NSIPs, applauded the role being played by the Ministry towards emancipating Nigerian youths, women and vulnerable groups across the country.

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Nairaland / General / FG Commits 400 Billion To NSIP Annually- Boss Mustafa by Leadership86(f): 7:13pm On Aug 24, 2021
FG Commits 400 billion To NSIP Annually- Boss Mustafa

Blessing Bature-Akpakpan, Abuja

The secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), Boss Mustafa has said that the federal government Committed Over 400 billion naira to National social investment Programme annually that the youth form greatest beneficiaries of this programme especially NPower and the entirety of NSIP.

Boss Mustafa made this known during the official launched of the government enterprise Empowerment Programme that this administration commits on a yearly basis over 400 billion naira to this people oriented initiatives, adding that this clearly attest to the commitment of the president that has never been witnessed before in this country.

Boss Mustafa who was ably represented by the minister of Youths and Spots development, hon Sunday Dare said federal government NSIP stands tall amongst the people's programme of President Muhammadu Buhari's administration. The NPower programme is the single largest programme in sub-saharan african today and many more.

"We have a president who is readily committed to the eradication of poverty as a way to accelerate Nigeria's development. At the core of Mr. President's initiative are the people. The people oreiented presidency. The initiative and policies also caters for various sectors of the society, the youth, women, vulnerable and others.

In the same vain, minister of Humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, appreciate His Excellency, the President for the confidence and support on me and my team to effectively implement the National Social Investment Programme NSIP.

Farouq said, "the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) consists of poverty reduction intervention clusters approved by the Federal Government in 2016 and in 2019 the programme was transferred to the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development for institutionalisation, supervision and coordination. The NSIP clusters, includes; the NPOWER, the GEEP, the CCT and the NHGSFP, which collectively have so far impacted over 12 million households since inception and the numbers are growing.

The minister said that GEEP programme is a veritable tool designed to end poverty in many ways. In other words, GEEP targets the unbanked poor and vulnerable but skilled population that have always been left out on credit delivery programmes and is directed at providing soft and affordable loans to finance their businesses. The GEEP is innovatively targeted and delivered under three unique products. The TraderMoni for marginalized youth, The MarketMoni targets vulnerable women, and the FarmerMoni specifically focuses on rural farmers.

"The NSIP and by extension, the GEEP currently remain the main driving force behind the poverty reduction in Nigeria. Let me specially appreciate His Excellency, the Vice-President of pederal Republic of Nigeria, whose office commenced the implementation of the NSIP. Without that solid foundation, we are able to transit to the current levels of implementation smoothly. To my colleagues, the Honourable Ministers here present and all the stakeholders both local and international Organizations who have partnered with the Ministry and have directly or indirectly contributed towards the successful implementation of the NSIP, | say thank you so much for your support and encouragement. 

She called on all Nigerians who are specially targeted by the NSIP and indeed the GEEP to please take advantage of all that the programme offers so that the vision of Mr. President of lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in 2030 will unfailingly be accomplished. 

The Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo who was ably represented by senator Baba Femi Ojudu, SA to the president on political matters applaud the humanitarian minister for the sleepless night, hardwork and the perseverance for forging a head for the major plan of fighting poverty.

The Vice President said the focus of GEEP is to provide inclusiveness by reducing poverty and providing for the unemployed youths in Nigeria.

Nairaland / General / International Youth Day: Group Urges FG To Reposition Youths by Leadership86(f): 8:21pm On Aug 12, 2021
International Youth Day: Group urges FG To Reposition Youths


Blessing Bature-Akpakpan, Abuja


As the world celebrate 2021 International Youth Day, Project Rescue Nigeria Foundation has called called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to Reposition the youths in order to understand and appreciate the fact that they are leaders of tomorrow and know the better way to move the country forward.

The Convener and National Coordinator, Mr Irem Nnaemeka made the call in his address of welcome an event to Mark the Day on Thursday in Abuja.

Nnaemeka stressed that there was need to include support mechanism that ensure youth continue to amplify efforts collectively and individually to restore the planet and protect life.

He added, " the topic for the 2021 International youth day ” youth, politics, peace and security ” was germane considering the fact that Nigeria is facing the worse of insecurity scenario in her chequered history as regional and ethnic secessionist and irredentists rare their heads in violent clamour for self determination.

He maintained that there’s need for renaissance and reawakening of the flames of patriotism in our youths and the blaze of love for one another, adding that instead of being antagonistic, we should be organized, articulated to build a durable pact that will hold the leaders accountable and most importantly be politically involved in all strata of democratic governance to build the Nigeria that will all dream of.

Also speaking Amb. Obuesi Philip, the National Director of Community Agenda for Peace said that youths are important stakeholders in the national development and if Nigeria must grow youth must be actively involved not just as supporters but as actors in the Nigerian project.

We must refuse to be used by corrupt politicians to perpetuate evil or for their selfish gain, we must channel our energy on positve engagements, contribute to economic development, involve in the political space and rescue Nigeria from this nightmare that we found ourselves to where we will all be proud of.

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Nairaland / General / International Youth Day: Foundation Resonate On Onerous Task Of Nation Building by Leadership86(f): 6:57pm On Aug 12, 2021
International Youth Day: Foundation Resonate On Onerous Task Of Nation Building

By Blessing Bature- Akpakpan

As the world is celebrating the International youth day, a youth based organization, Project Rescue Nigeria Foundation has charged Nigerian youths on the onerous tasks of rescuing country from the precipice of insecurity, political instability, economic strangulation, unemployment, religious bigotry and other abnormalities that is bedevilling the nation.

The Convener and National Coordinator Project Rescue Nigeria Foundation, Comrade Irem Raphael Nnaemeka made the call yesterday in Abuja during the breakfast dialogue organized by the group in commemoration of the International youth day, saying that Nigeria is at the cross road in all fronts; economically, politically, socially and security wise and the youths must rise up to the occasion in changing the narrative, get involve and retrieve Nigeria from the claws of the old brigade, he said.

Nnaemeka said the topic for the 2021 International youth day " youth, politics, peace and security " was germane considering the fact that Nigeria is facing the worse of insecurity scenario in her chequered history as regional and ethnic secessionist and irredentists rare their heads in violent clamour for self determination.
He maintained that there's need for renaissance and reawakening of the flames of patriotism in our youths and the blaze of love for one another, adding that instead of being antagonistic, we should be organized, articulated to build a durable pact that will hold the leaders accountable and most importantly be politically involved in all strata of democratic governance to build the Nigeria that will all dream of.

Also speaking Amb. Obuesi Philip, the National Director of Community Agenda for Peace said that youths are important stakeholders in the national development and if Nigeria must grow youth must be actively involved not just as supporters but as actors in the Nigerian project.

We must refuse to be used by corrupt politicians to perpetuate evil or for their selfish gain, we must channel our energy on positve engagements, contribute to economic development, involve in the political space and rescue Nigeria from this nightmare that we found ourselves to where we will all be proud of.

Nairaland / General / FG Commences National Multidimensional Poverty Index Survey by Leadership86(f): 7:04am On Aug 12, 2021
FG Commences National Multidimensional Poverty Index Survey
 
Blessing Bature-Akpakpan, Abuja


The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has announced the official kickoff of the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) Survey.

The humanitarian affairs minister, Sadiya Umar Farouq made the announcement during the MPI Survey virtual launched on Tuesday.

The SA media Nneka Ikem Anibeze said in a statement that the minister said on the occasion, that Nigeria has joined many countries that have moved towards improving the efficiency of their decision-making processes through the evidence generated by MPI.

“The consensus around the use of the MPI emerges from different approaches and global agreements, including the Millennium Development Goal (MDGs), which has been replaced by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to cover the multiple aspects of deprivation at the core of poverty and their inter-linkages.
 
“It is therefore an honour to join other strong voices to highlight the importance of multi-stakeholder engagements on poverty eradication, zero hunger, quality education, climate action and inclusion, all of which are central to the evidence generated by the MPI”.
 
Farouq noted that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has successfully empowered more than 10 million people out of extreme poverty through the many initiatives of Government, including the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP), GEEP, Npower, NHGSFP and many more.

“This aspiration takes into cognizance the country’s current estimated population of about 200 million people, as well as the need for better evidence for programming.
 
She said “the ministry therefore, stands ready to collaborate with different government agencies, donor organisations and private investors to shape policies and drive real impact in the use of MPI data to foster government accountability to citizens through improved multi-sectoral interventions targeted at the root of deprivations.

“In addition, the ministry will collaborate closely with the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) to conduct regular multidimensional poverty measurements alongside monetary measures at both national and sub-national levels to ascertain the true poverty status of Nigeria and use the findings to shape policy and programming”.

The Ministry will partner with private sector actors using the special purpose vehicle of Social Investments to create a National and State poverty map/tracker which will help provide progress towards poverty reduction goals and will also collaborate with the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning using MPI data to improve budget allocations by sector and State in order to target individuals, communities and areas needing dire attention.

The minister thanked the World Bank Group, UNDP, OPHI, UNICEF, the High Commission of Canada, and other bilateral and multi-lateral bodies for their support towards eradicating extreme poverty by 2030.

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Nairaland / General / School Feeding Pupils Biometric Data Will Boost Enrolment In Nigeria - Minister by Leadership86(f): 9:21am On Aug 11, 2021
School Feeding Pupils biometric data will boost enrolment in Nigeria - Minister

Blessing Bature-Akpakpan, Abuja

The Federal Government, through the Federal ministry of humanitarian affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has said that pupils' biometric data capture would assist to enhance school feeding programme and increase enrolment figure in Nigeria.

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Hajiya Sadiya Umar-Faruq, stated this at Gurungawa primary school, Kano, on Tuesday, while flagging-off the School Feeding Enumeration exercise.

Farouq who was represented by her Technical Assistant, also the Team Leader of the exercise in Kano State, Mr Hashim Abubakar said the ministry involved NYSC corps members, NOA and the staff of the National Bureau for Statistics in the exercise with a view to having an authentic data to work on.

She explained that it was President Muhammadu Buhari who created the ministry with a view to enhance the living condition of Nigerians and initiated what was called National Social Investment Programme (N-SIP), that has four components to achieve the set goal.

According to her, the four components were the N-Power, Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT), Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme and the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme.

She said that pupils from primary school one-to-three would be captured in all the public schools in the 36 states and FCT that cooks would also be captured during the exercise.

The minister, therefore, urged Local Education Authorities, teachers, parents and other stakeholders to ensure that every eligible pupil was captured during the exercise and reiterated the administration's commitment to lifting Nigerians out of hardships through its social investment mechanisms to enable them contribute in nation building.

In his remarks, the State Programme Manager, Alhaji Abdullahi Yau, commended president Muhammadu Buhari and humanitarian minister for initiating the exercise with a view to have accurate data of the beneficiaries.

He said that 1.2 million children in the state were benefitting from the programme currently and however said that with the launch of free and compulsory education, pupils enrollment has significant increased.

Also, the programme focal person, Malam Baba Aminu-Zubairu, said the state has over 2 million children that need to be captured now urging teachers and parents to ensure that every eligible child was captured during the exercise.

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Nairaland / General / Pupils' Biometric Data Capture Will Boost NHGSFP Enrollment In Nigeria- Farouq by Leadership86(f): 9:06am On Aug 11, 2021
Pupils' Biometric Data Capture Will Boost NHGSFP Enrollment In Nigeria- Farouq


By Blessing Bature- Akpakpan, Abuja

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar-Farouq has said that pupils' biometric data capture would assist the federal government to enhance school feeding programme and increase enrolment figure in the country.

Farouq stated this at Gurungawa primary school, Kano, on Tuesday, while flagging-off the School Feeding Enumeration exercise.
Umar-Farouq who was represented by her Technical Assistant, who was also the Team Leader of the exercise in Kano State, Mr Hashim Abubakar said that the ministry involved NYSC corps members, NOA and the staff of the National Bureau for Statistics in the exercise with a view to having an authentic data to work on.

The minister, therefore, urged Local Education Authorities, teachers, parents and other stakeholders to ensure that every eligible pupil was captured during the exercise.
She explained that it was President Muhammadu Buhari who created the ministry with a view to enhance the living condition of Nigerians.
According to her, the government initiated what was called National Social Investment Programme (N-SIP), that has four components to achieve the set goal.
She said the four components were the N-Power, Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT), Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme and the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme.
Umar-Faruq said that pupils from primary school one-to-three would be captured in all the public schools in the 36 states and FCT.
She also said that cooks would also be captured during the exercise.
The minister also reiterated the administration's commitment to lifting Nigerians out of hardships through its social investment mechanisms to enable them contribute in nation building.
In his remarks, the State Programme Manager, Alhaji Abdullahi Yau, commended the minister for initiating the exercise with a view to have accurate data of the beneficiaries.
He said that 1.2 million children in the state were benefitting from the programme currently.
Yau however said that with the launch of free and compulsory education, pupils enrollment has significant increased.
Also, the programme focal person, Malam Baba Aminu-Zubairu, said that the state has over 2 million children that need to be captured now.
He urged teachers and parents to ensure that ever eligible child was captured during the exercise.

Nairaland / General / School Feeding: Bauchi Govt Begins Enumeration 1.1m Pupils by Leadership86(f): 2:59am On Aug 07, 2021
School feeding: Bauchi Govt Begins enumeration 1.1m pupils


Blessing Bature-Akpakpan, Abuja

The Bauchi State Government has begun the enumeration exercise of 1.1 million pupils to scale up implementation of the Federal Government’s National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) in the state.

Special Adviser to Gov Bala Mohammed on Social Investment Programme (N-SIP), Hajiya Amina Katagum, stated this at the inauguration of the electronic enrollment exercise that the three-week exercise would be conducted across the 20 local government of the state, to generate quality data for the programme

Katagum said, “The enumeration is conducted by the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian, Disaster Management and Social Investment Programme in partnership with Bauchi state Government and charged “all the 7,538 food vendors to comply with the directives of the exercise as the exercise will provide us with the opportunity to enroll more pupils, if approved by the Federal Government,” she said.

"Corps members were also engaged for the exercise and called on the general public to cooperate with them for a hitch free exercise, that the recent non payment of funds to food vendors was in line with the scaling up exercise.

She expressed optimism on the proposed scale up of the programme, adding that community mobilisation was ongoing to mobilise participation and compliance of the exercise.

Also speaking, an official of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Bauchi State office, Mr Walbe Setka, said that a monitoring mechanism had been developed for the monitoring and supervision of the exercise in the state.

According to him, 312 Corps members are deployed to various communities, they were trained in the four zones of the state for the exercise. “A mechanism was devised to ensure that quality data is obtained and we have all written to their places of primary assignments for them to carry out the exercise while urging the Corp members to be patriotic in discharging their assignments.

Mr Gidado Abubakar, an official of the NHGSFP Abuja office, said that the exercise was aimed at enumerating the beneficiaries across the country for national planning on the NHGSFP.

Some of the food vendors, Mrs Maimuna Bello and Mrs Maryan Umar, expressed their appreciation for the investment of the Federal Government in the programme.

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Nairaland / General / FG Flagged Off NOA Training For GEEP Extension by Leadership86(f): 2:41am On Aug 07, 2021
FG flagged off NOA training For GEEP Extension


Blessing Bature-Akpakpan, Abuja

The federal ministry of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development has flagged off the training of staff of the national orientation agency (NOA), has Master trainers for seamless extension and the implementation of government enterprise and interest free Programme.

Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Sadiya Umar Farouq, disclosed this during the opening ceremony of the training of personnel to champion the scheme, yesterday in Abuja.

Farouq said it has appointed 774 Community Orientation and Mobilization Officers (COMOs) to strengthen the Government Enterprise Empowerment Programme (GEEP) that the personnel would sensitize communities on GEEP, register interested beneficiaries of (TraderMoni, MarketMoni and FarmerMonic), collect and collate necessary data, provide feedbacks.

Speaking on the training, she said: “This two-day intensive interactive training course intends to train the master trainers and to provide an understanding and insight to the processes, drivers, threats and opportunities associated with the core GEEP activities, adding that the training is expected to educate the Master trainers about the newly introduced structure of top-bottom representation from the Federal through State and Local Government levels respectively, as well as inform them on the roles and responsibilities of the COMO’s on how to register and enlighten the target beneficiaries on how to access the GEEP loans in furtherance to help eradicate poverty, generate employment throughout the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

She explained, “The FMHADMSD entered partnership with this agency to appoint the Community Orientation and Mobilization officers (COMO’s) as the – ‘GEEP Local Government Desk Officers’ at all the 774 local government levels areas across the 36 states and the FCT and announced a partnership with the National Orientation Agency (NOA), to consistently raise awareness to positively change attitudes, values, and behaviours of Nigerians, particularly beneficiaries of the scheme.

She said: “The role of the desk officers will be to:a) Sensitize communities on the GEEP programme) Register interested beneficiaries of TraderMoni, MarketMoni and FarmerMonic) Collect and collate necessary data for the programmed) Provide necessary feedback to the programme coordinators at State and Federal Levels) Encourage active participation of the programme) Uphold the mandate of the programme and lead with honesty, fairness under conditions of oath.”

According to her, “the NOA is identified as one of the organs of government agencies largely spread across all states and Local Governments with the capacity to adequately engage, mobilize and sensitize the general public on Government programmes and policies. “It is of great pleasure to formally announce a collaborative partnership with the National Orientation Agency as one of the partners in implementation of the NSIP programmes since inception.

The Director General of NOA, Dr Garba Abari, encouraged the participants to take the exercise seriously that their training would determine their contribution, adding that his agency would be up and doing in ensuring that the message gets to the grassroots.

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Nairaland / General / 642,500 Pupils Benefits From FG School Feeding Programme by Leadership86(f): 10:07pm On Aug 05, 2021
642,500 Pupils Benefits From FG school feeding Programme

Blessing Bature-Akpakpan, Abuja


No fewer than 642,500 pupils in has benefited from the Federal Government biometric data to scale up implementation of the National Home-Grown School Feeding programme (NHGSFP) in Borno.

Alhaji Mohammed Alfa, the Consultant of the programme, stated this in an interview on Thursday that the one-week enumeration exercise was going smoothly across the state.

He said, “Initially; we planned for 112,500 beneficiaries in Borno, however, the figure based on updated data rose to 642,500, and so far, we have only 55 tablets and expecting delivery of 212 others to speed up the exercise, adding that the good news for Borno is that this programme is supposed to be for 20 days, but because of our peculiarities, we have been given the opportunity to extend it beyond that,” Alfa said.

In the same vain, Director, National Orientation Agency (NOA) in the state, Alhaji Shettima Ja’afar, said the Agency was saddled with responsibility for the distribution of the registration forms to public schools, saying that personnel of the Agency with support of local councils’ officials were distributing the forms in some areas with security challenges.

Jaafar said the personnel would also handle the biometric registration alongside Corps members engaged for the exercise.

According to him, the Corps members will handle the registration exercise in Maiduguri, Jere and Biu LGAs, while personnel of the Agency would conduct the exercise in the remaining 24 LGAs.

The Headteacher, 1,0000 Housing Estate Primary School, Konduga, Mr Hauwa Balami said over 400 pupils had been captured in the ongoing enumeration exercise and no fewer than 12 food vendors were engaged to supply meal to the pupils in the school under the programme.

“We have a committee of four people responsible for ensuring the quality of the food,” she said
Some of the parents, Bukar Usman, Yagana Modu and Fatima Ali, lauded the initiative, saying it encouraged enrollment and retention in school, yhe feeding programme made the pupils eager to rush to school without waiting to take breakfast at home. It should be sustained,” Usman said.

A food vendor of the programme, Amina Mohammed, also commanded the programme, adding it created employment opportunity for her and other women in the state while appealing for an upward review of fund because prices of food commodities have gone up,  and we (vendors) wont make any gain if we continue like this,” she said.

The school feeding programme is being implemented by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development in collaboration with state governments which is designed to ensure that each pupil from primary 1 to primary 3 in public school receive one free nutritious meal during school hours.

Nairaland / General / FG To Prosecute Rape, Gender Based Violence Offenders by Leadership86(f): 8:52pm On Aug 03, 2021
FG To Prosecute Rape, Gender Based Violence Offenders

Blessing Bature-Akpakpan, Abuja


The Federal Government has vowed to deal decisively with all perpetrators of Rape and other Gender-Based Violence in the country.

The Vice President, Prof Yemi Osibanjo made this known at the official launch of USAID’s Momentum Country and Global Leadership.

The Vice President who was represented by the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Sadiya Umar Farouq said that the declaration by the federal government of Zero Tolerance to Rape and other forms of Gender Based Violence is a step in the right direction in fighting Gender Based Violence in Nigeria.

“Mr. President directed the Inspector-General of Police to deal with all perpetrators further to the declaration of Zero tolerance to Rape and other Gender-Based Violence as well as constant engagement with the Police on the need to promptly address issues of Gender Based Violence.

“This declaration of Zero Tolerance to Rape and other forms of Gender Based Violence, including Harmful Traditional Practices is a giant stride and a step in the right direction in fighting Gender Based Violence in Nigeria”

“It is time we rise up to the challenges posed by this menace and constantly speak out against this evil perpetrated by mindless individuals. As such, I want to join my voice to all the voices gathered here today to say no to Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria. It would be recalled that the Federal Executive Council on 10th June, 2020 had unanimously declared zero tolerance against Gender-Based Violence in the country in view of the hues and cries that trailed the unacceptable spike in Gender-Based Violence during the Covid-19 pandemic lock-down.

“This resulted in the inauguration of an Inter-Ministerial Gender-Based Violence Management Committee on 23rd June, 2021 to proffer a synchronized approach to address all forms of violence against women and children in the country,” the minister said.

Umar Farouq noted that violence against women has not only impacted on the society and the economy but also restricted women due to limited access to education, employment and finances.

“As a Nation, we will continue to boldly condemn Gender-Based Violence (GBV), so long as it continues to impact negatively on survivors, victims, families, broader society and economies of Nations.

“From available information, we are more than ever convinced that Gender Based Violence is driven by structural inequalities and unequal power relations that render women subordinate to men due to limited access to education, employment, finances, healthcare and opportunities to contribute to their families, communities and the nation’s economic growth”.

The Minister praised the minister of Women Affairs Dame Pauline Tallen for her doggedness and advocacy against Gender Based Violence in the country while thanking USAID and other donors. She also called on well-meaning Nigerians to support the course of ending GBV in Nigeria.

The Charge D'Affairs of the US Embassy Kathleen FitzGibbon, Representative of Ebonyi State Governor Chief Emmanuel Umezurike, Representative of the Sokoto state Governor, the Permanent Secretary of the Women Affairs Ministry, Head of USAID Dr. Anne E. Patterson, Country Director of UN, Civil Society Organization, heads of agencies and other dignitaries attended the official launch of the USAID’s Momentum Country and Global Leadership.

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Nairaland / General / Monarch Lauds FG Over NHGSF Programme In Zamfara by Leadership86(f): 7:16pm On Aug 03, 2021
Monarch lauds FG over NHGSF Programme In Zamfara

Blessing Bature-Akpakpan, Abuja

The Emir of Maru in Zamfara, Alhaji Abubakar Maigari has lauded the Federal Government for initiating the National Home Grown Feeding Programme for primary schools.

Maigari made the commendation on Tuesday while receiving officials from the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, who paid a courtesy visit to him that the programme had increased pupils’ enrollment in schools significantly.

“Based on the information and record available to us, the programme has increased pupils’ enrollment. In fact, some children are taking themselves to schools without even informing their parents.

“I want to use this medium on behalf of the entire people of Maru emirate to commend President Muhammadu Buhari for initiating the programme.

“I want to appreciate our daughter, Hajia Sadiya Farouk, Minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, for her efforts at ensuring the programme reached all targeted beneficiaries across the country,” the royal father said.

The traditional ruler urged all stakeholders to support the programme to ensure its sustainability and success because education for the future of our children requires every body’s support and cooperation,” he said.

He also urged parents and guardians to ensure take the education responsibility of their children, adding that teachers and food vendors as well as other officials in charge of feeding the children should ensure justice and fairness,” he added.

Earlier, the Assistant Legal Adviser of the ministry, Mr Ibrahim Modibbo, who led the officials to the palace, said the visit was part of the validation of the ongoing enumeration exercise of the programme taking place across Zamfara.

Modibbo noted that the reason for the enumeration exercise was to address challenges of the programme, adding; “we are satisfied with what we saw in the centers so far visited.

“We noticed inadequate number of pupils in some schools and we observed that the feeding has stopped since return of schools after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Nairaland / General / NDE-FCT Flags Off 2021 POST SADTS To Boost Agro-businesses by Leadership86(f): 4:03pm On Jul 28, 2021
NDE-FCT Flags Off 2021 POST SADTS To Boost Agro-businesses

By Otobong Gabriel Akpakpan, Abuja

In line with the Federal Government avowed commitments to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty, the National Directorate of Employment FCT has flagged off Post Sustainable Agricultural Development Training Scheme (Post SADTS) in Abuja.

The Director General, National Directorate of Employment Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo who was represented by the FCT state Cordinator Mallam Hassan Isa Koto, said the five days Post SADTS which is ongoing in all the 36 states of the federation is targeted at encouraging and boosting the capacities of the 50 graduate trainees on agricultural intervention policies, livestock production, digital marketing of agricultural products as well as fish processing, packaging and marketing.

In his address, the FCT state Coordinator of the NDE, Mallam Hassan Isa Koto said the Federal Government is not leaving any stone unturn in encouraging Nigerian youths to embrace and see Agriculture as a very profitable business, a key to long-term economic growth, employment and wealth creation.

Koto however expressed his displeasure over the beneficiaries's inappropriateness in their investment strategies which has resulted in their default in repayment of their loan portfolios as observed in the past, and encouraged participants to take the training serious as its not only going to remedy the poor loan repayment status but will enhance their capacity with knowledge of modern Agricultural policies, incentives and linkages to other sources of funding for their respective enterprises.

Also the Head of Department, Rural Employment Promotion (REP) of the NDE-FCT, Alabi Adeoye said the training is for graduates of SADTS and other schemes of REP who wants to expand their Agro-enterprises or acquire knowledge to establish new ones and encouraged the selected beneficiaries to make good use of the opportunity to improve their Agro-businesses.

Daniel Idachaba appreciated the Federal Government for their demonstrated commitments to fight poverty in Nigeria through agricultural development programmes, saying that the post SADTS will equip them with the needed knowledge and information to make informed decision on their investment strategies and asked government to render the necessary financial assistance as promised, to transmit the knowledge gained from the training into practical use.

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Nairaland / General / FG Trains 15 Southern State On Emergency, Disaster Management by Leadership86(f): 7:12pm On Jul 16, 2021
FG Trains 15 Southern State On Emergency, Disaster Management


Blessing Bature-Akpakpan, Abuja


The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has held its second training of emergency responders in the Southern states of the country to assist in handling emergency situations in their various communities more effectively.

A statement by the SA media, Nneka Anibeze said Minister, FMHADMSD, Sadiya Umar Farouq declared the training open in Ikeja Lagos on Thursday that the capacity building initiative is aimed at training local community first responders to address specific needs of the vulnerable, mitigate the effects of a hostile environment on persons of concern and handle the possible long term impacts of crises in their various communities.

The Minister who was represented by the Deputy Director Humanitarian Affairs, Mr Charles Anaelo stated that the training will serve as a platform for exchange of ideas and experience sharing from field operations with a view to entrenching efficient and effective delivery.

“The Ministry believes that enhancing your capabilities on migration issues related to disasters must include training. That is the surest means of guaranteeing that you meet the needs of affected communities at the inception of an incident or disaster, as your roles are always at the initial phase of the disaster.

“This training, therefore, has been carefully designed to guide you (being the closest to the communities) to understand the effects of disasters on migration and how to mitigate such. You are also expected to acquire the ability to appropriately respond to migration resulting from disasters”.

Mr. Nuhu El-Dudeen, a representative of the partnering organization Mzury Nigeria Limited, described the intervention as timely and called on well meaning individuals and organisations to key into initiatives that promote the well being of the masses.

" Mzury Nigeria Limited, a consulting firm located in Abuja has over time partnered with many organisations where our consultants take up capacity building roles for their personnel. This is exactly what we are doing with the Ministry. We are calling on other well meaning Nigerians and organisations to collaborate with government and other companies to bring succor to vulnerable people in the society".

One of the participants from the Enugu State Emergency Management Agency, Mrs. Chinasa Mba, expressed optimism that the two-day training would equip them in carrying out their duties of saving lives and property in a more professional way.

" In line with the theme of the workshop, we are to get the necessary skills and knowledge which we would in turn take back to our different states to ensure that we respond professionally to situations requiring interventions especially with the massive migration of displaced persons to other parts of the country due to insecurity".

The two day capacity building for community emergency response teams drew many participants from State Emergency Agencies in Enugu, Anambra, Imo, Abia, Akwa Ibom, Cross-River, Delta, Edo, Ondo,Ekiti, Oyo, Osun, Ogun and Lagos States, as well as the National Emergency Management Agency.

Last week, a similar programme was held for emergency responders in 19 northern states of the country.

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Nairaland / General / NCFRMI Reassures Commitment To Tackling Issues Affecting Pocs, Refugees by Leadership86(f): 2:37pm On Jul 13, 2021
NCFRMI Reassures Commitment To Tackling Issues affecting PoCs, refugees

By Blessing Bature-akpakpan, Abuja

The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), has reiterated it's Commitment towards ensuring adequate protection and assistance of refugees, asylum seekers, returnees, stateless persons, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and migrants in the country.

The Federal Commissioner, NCFRMI, Hajiya Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, said this on Tuesday in Abuja during a courtesy visit by executives of the National Institute for Security Studies (NISS) that “insurgency and insurrection around the country has led to displacement of millions of Nigerians from their homes, but the Commission is committed to providing durable solutions for PoCs and ensuring they are returned to their states of origin or resettled in a humane and dignified manner.”

She stated that the NCFRMI has the statutory responsibility to provide coordination for migration and development related activities in Nigeria. The Commission also serves as the coordinating body for all migration related issues, while ensuring that all the different actors involved carry out their mandates within certain agreed standards and for the purpose of achieving the core objectives.

She said: “NCFRMI is mandated to lead and coordinate national action for the protection and assistance of refugees, asylum seekers, returnees, stateless persons, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and migrants. All these categories of persons are referred to as Persons of Concern (PoCs) to the Commission.

“The NCFRMI designed the National Migration Dialogue in 2015 as a strategy for mainstreaming migration into the country’s Development Agenda. The Commission also led in the design of the Nigerian National Migration Policy, which addresses the multifaceted issues of migration, and create a win-win situation for migrants and countries of origin, transit and destination.

“Arising from insurgency and insurrection around the country, millions of Nigerians have been displaced from their homes. The Commission is committed to providing durable solutions for Persons of Concern (PoCs) and ensuring they are returned to their states of origin or resettled in a humane and dignified manner.

“The NCFRMI developed the Resettlement and Reintegration Programme, which entails building resettlement cities that targeted an initial four states of Borno, Katsina, Edo and Zamfara, each city with 600 houses, a primary healthcare centre, educational learning centre, skills acquisition centre, recreational area and a solar powered bole hole.

“The Commission is currently in the process of refining thoughts and using the lessons learnt from the 1st phase to fine tune and develop an improved plan to capture and include more PoCs.

“The Commission in partnership with the Central Bank of Nigeria also developed ‘Project Reliance’, a large-scale empowerment programme that will allow our PoCs be beneficiaries to CBN Development programs. 125,000 PoCs have been captured. A pilot stage of 10,000 beneficiaries is about to take-off.”

She added: “The National Policy on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria is currently on its way to the Federal Executive Council for final approval. It is a policy that spells out principles guiding humanitarian assistance and implementation of durable solutions in situations of internal displacement in Nigeria. Implementation of this Policy document translates to the domestication of the Kampala convention, which is the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa.

“The Federal Government is committed to ensuring that Nigeria is a Refugee friendly country through the implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR), in Nigeria. The Commission has attained giant strides in fulfilling the pledges made at the Global Compact on Refugee (GCR) Forum which held in Switzerland in December 2019.

“Nevertheless, we face challenges of insufficient funding, Post Covid-19 peculiarities affecting PoCs, Synergy between humanitarian actors, inadequate data on PoCs, need for office space and infrastructure for data/profiling centre.

“However, the Commission’s renewed vision is targeted not only to address the consequences affecting our PoCs, but to also tackle the root causes by ensuring the prioritization of economic empowerment, while the commission taps into funded global initiatives and funded development programmes in order to maximize value, as well as to major on diplomacy and development.

“The Humanitarian field is a call to service to Humanity, hence the Commission’s clarion call for support in line with the National Action Plan for Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria.”

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Nairaland / General / FG Launches Implementation Of NSIP In Yobe by Leadership86(f): 3:49pm On Jul 08, 2021
FG Launches Implementation Of NSIP In Yobe



Blessing Bature-Akpakpan, Abuja


In attending to the challenges in the country, the federal government of Nigeria has launched the implementation of the National Social Investment Program (NSIP) which is made up of four uniques clusters that are integrated to provide the maximum impact to the venerable.

The minister of Humanitarian Affairs, disaster management and social development, Sadiya Umar Farouq who was ably represented by the Zonal Monitor, Alh Ali Grema said the NSIP is strategically designed to fully involve all stakeholders most especially the State Governments.

She Said, "Based on the approval of Mr President, the anchor of these programmes in the State is the Focal Person appointed by His Excellency the Governor who provides the direct link with both the Ministry and the State Government through the Office of the Secretary of the State Government. The Focal Person is expected to enhance the understanding of the different packages under the NSIP and to ensure that the beneficiaries are well targeted and affected.

Farouq stated that His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari recognizing the social challenges in our Country decided to innovatively take proactive and decisive measures in fighting the effects of absolute poverty and its attending consequences. As a result of due consultations and research, he launched the implementation of the National Social Investment Program (NSIP) which is made up of four uniques clusters that are integrated to provide the maximum impact. In its implementation, the 4 clusters on the NSIP are:

The Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) that is aimed at reducing the vulnerability of poor homes by providing monthly cash transfers of N5,000 and ensuring social inclusivity through deliberate humanitarian activites;
The National Home-Grown School Feeding program (NHGSFP) was designed as a multi-faceted intervention to drive school enrollment up, boost nutrition of the pupils, support local production of food and encourage employment and income generation. Specifically, it is aimed at the provision of one nutritious meal to all pupils in public primary schools in classes 1 to 3 to achieve these objectives.

The GEEP which is aimed at advancing micro soft loans with no requirement of collateral or any interest charges, adding that all these were deliberately designed to specifically target section of vulnerable Nigerians that include youths, elderly persons, widows, poorest of the poor, children, and micro businesspersons.

"Effectively, the total impact of these special intervention affects millions of Nigerians with indices on the reduction of hunger and malnutrition, generating employment and creation of wealth.

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Nairaland / General / NHGSF: FG To Increase School Enrollment In Cross River by Leadership86(f): 9:12pm On Jul 07, 2021
NHGSF: FG To Increase School Enrollment In Cross River

Blessing Bature-Akpakpan, Abuja

The Deputy Governor of Cross River State Prof. Ivara Ejemot Esu, OFR has said that the National Home Grown School Feeding programme has positively improved enrollment of primary school pupils in the state.

SA media said in a statement that Pro Ejemot made this known when members of the Project Task Team of the NHGSFP Enumeration exercise paid him a courtesy visit on Wednesday at the Government House in Calabar ahead of the school feeding Enumeration in the state.

The Deputy Governor expressed appreciation to the Federal Government for the initiation of the National Home Grown School Feeding while also praising the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Sadiya Umar Farouq for her steadfastness in ensuring that the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration drastically reduces poverty and improves the literacy standards of Nigerian children through the school feeding programme.

“I want to thank the federal government and the Minister for her focus on initiating poverty reduction programs in the state especially the National Home Grown Feeding Programme. Since the commencement of the programme in Cross River state, there has been an increase in school enrolment. “This is good news for the education sector as every country will like to reduce the illiteracy population of its citizenry . The Minister has been doing so much in her Ministry with many social investment programs to help the poor in the country for which I will greatly commend her.

“We in Cross River state are committed to the success of the NHGSFP and will collaborate with the Project Task Team to ensure an accurate enumeration excercise in the state”.

Earlier, the Minister, who was represented by the Zonal monitor Sunday Okoh stated that President Muhammadu Buhari recognized the social challenges in the country, hence the decision to put up decisive measures to fight poverty.

“The implementation of the National Social Investment Program (NSIP) is made up of four unique clusters that are integrated to provide the maximum impact. In its implementation, the NSIP is strategically designed to fully involve all stakeholders, most especially the State governments.

“Today, we are here in Cross River State on the strength of our partnership and mutual recognition of the need to do more on the NHGSFP. We will bring more Nigerians under the umbrella of the Government’s social protection mechanism and scale up the numbers of the pupils benefiting from the Program as directed by His Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari”.

Over 9 million pupils are currently benefiting from 1 free nutritious meal a day during school term nationwide, with a mandate to reach an additional 5 million pupils by 2023.

Nairaland / General / Anniversary: Okorocha’s Son Celebrates Network Of Businesses, Philanthropy, Othe by Leadership86(f): 3:58pm On Jul 05, 2021
Anniversary: Okorocha’s son celebrates network of businesses, philanthropy, others

Paul Okah, Abuja

The third son of former Governor of Imo State and Senator representing Imo West, Senator Rochas Okorocha, Mr Amamchi Okorocha, on Sunday celebrated the anniversary of his network of businesses and philanthropic activities, and the establishment of the Wingist Network, cutting across luxury hospitality, lifestyle, entertainment, real estate, among others.

Addressing journalists during the anniversary that attracted politicians, celebrities and who-is-who in Abuja on Sunday, Amamchi said that he established the Wingist Network in January 2020, upon his return from the U.S and has gone ahead to diversify and engage in many philanthropic activities, including visit to orphanages and internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps with members of the Wingist Network Foundation.

He said: “The Wingist network is a forerunner in luxury hospitality, lifestyle, entertainment and real estate. The company is made up of forward-thinking youths that are ready to change the global perspective indefinitely. Wingist Network fosters values around integrity, family, accountability, teamwork and innovation; which creates an environment for leadership and career growth alongside personal development.

“Wingist network group of companies was founded in 2020 and currently has several diverse luxury and complementary businesses under its umbrella. For instance, the Wingist Sports Bar & Restaurant is a pioneer outlet of the network, which was launched in June 2020, during the pandemic, and served as an avenue where the customers could ease the build-up of tension from the months-long lockdown.

“The Hive by Wingist is the succeeding outlet of the network and was launched on the 1st of October 2020 to cater for the urban party clientele that love outdoor parties, while Eden by Wingist was founded on the 13th of December 2020 for fun-loving people, who desire luxury drinking and dining experience. This is our most luxurious outlet and is a Garden of Eden–inspired indoor-outdoor restaurant and lounge.

“Our vision is to create a multinational eco-system of luxury hospitality and entertainment, through continuous innovation and teamwork and to provide customers with the most luxurious and compelling hospitable and entertainment services. In a nutshell, we are into hospitality, restaurant chain, lounge chain, media production, music production, real estate, venture capitalist, artist management, events production, concerts, parties, movies/shows/live production, philanthropy, with subsidiaries as La Terre, Aro studios, Ink Realtor, The W studios.

“Also, based on our track record of success, Wingist Network has successfully entered into partnerships with brands who are the forerunners in their respective niche globally, including Penrod – Ricard, Red Bull, Coca – Cola, Wourton, Juremi Foundation, Rochas Group of Companies, U-save Foundation, Delphino Entertainment, among others.

“Digital distribution has been the preferred method of showcasing creativity. Wingist Network has vast connections in the entertainment and hospitality industry combined with a well-qualified and licensed digital team. We help create, re-create, develop and distribute your digital work, we also provide digital distribution of music, images and videos we provide area of expertise in talent management, music and movie production, event management and content creation.

“La Terre hotels Nigeria limited is a subsidiary of the Wingist Network group of companies that focuses on offering state of the art luxurious hotels, resorts and apartments. Our team are experts disposed in giving clients the best in style and sophistication. Another project currently handled by the group is the SKIES event center, currently under construction in the high profile area of Port Harcourt Crescent in Area 11, Abuja.”

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