₦airaland Forum

SpecialAdviser:
Nonsense, after causing high inflation of goods, what will someone buy with 5000.

Just a carton of Domino Pizza or a bucket of gworo.

Buhari is a Scam

Earthquake1:
Give me the link where the FG helped the disabled in Anambra or STFU.

GoroTango:
Social security in terms of monetary payments to the poor is a bad idea especially to our northern people, because in the long run it would only entrench a culture of laziness. Instead of doling out 5k per month to individuals, how about using the money to hand out our women birth control pills for starters ?

Codes151:
You can’t spend tax payers cash on some section only

bejeria101:
Nigeria is made of only katsina state?

Annnonymous:
If i may ask, what is the indices for selecting the less privileged?

ManirBK:
http://leadership.ng/2017/12/18/fg-disburses-n5-000-monthly-stipends-katsina-poor/

senatordave1:
https://yaanews.com/nigerian-government-starts-paying-n5000-every-month-poorest-citizens

Read the above link.

senatordave1:
You are insatiable like other anti buharists.is 5k monthly not better than receiving nothing in the end? Past governments gave the masses nothing but now thar buhari decides to give a psltry sum instead of looting it,you still complain.haba.

Annnonymous:
If i may ask, what is the indices for selecting the less privileged?

How We Selected Beneficiaries Of Conditional Cash Transfer – FG

The Federal Government, on Sunday said beneficiaries already partaking of its Conditional Cash Transfer across the nine pilot states were identified before the inauguration of the Muhammadu Buhari administration on May 29, 2015.

The beneficiaries are currently receiving N5000 monthly stipends in Bauchi, Borno, Cross Rivers, Ekiti, Kwara, Kogi, Niger, Osun (not Ogun as initially announced) and Oyo, according to a statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media & Publicity in the Office of the Vice President, Laolu Akande.

On the progress of the Buhari administration’s Social Investment Programmes, SIP, Akande said the Community-Based Targeting, CBT model of the World Bank was used two years ago to identify most of the beneficiaries in the pilot States, as the World Bank is also an active agent in the entire process.

The data collected, he said, belongs to Nigeria, debunking claims that “there is no way anyone can describe the selection of the beneficiaries of the CCT as partisan as the beneficiaries from eight of the nine pilot States were picked even before this administration came into office.

“First, the officials at federal level, working with the state officials, identify the poorest Local Government Areas, using an existing poverty map for the state, then the LG officials identify the poorest communities in the LGAs and we send our teams there.”

The first thing the team does after selection of the LGAs, he explained further, is to select members of the NOA, the LGA and community officials to form the CBT team. Then we train the selected officials on how to conduct Focus Group discussions at community level. These focus groups comprise of women, men, youth, as the community determines.

After training them, the CBT teams goes to each community to sensitize the leaders, including traditional rulers, on the CBT process and the necessity for objectivity and openness in the process.

At that meeting, they firm up a date to convene a community meeting at a designated location within the community.

On the set date, discussions are held in the local languages, using terminologies that resonate in that community. The CBT team will explain to the community the purpose of the gathering, that is to determine the parameters of poverty upon which persons can be described as poor and vulnerable within the context of that community.

The CBT teams will then engage each group (men, women and youth) in the conversation around the criteria and parameters for determining the poorest people. The groups would then be encouraged to identify those households that fall within the criteria that the community itself determines, and told that the information is required for government’s planning purposes.

Continuing, Akande said “various poverty criteria have been thrown up so far. In some cases, people have said it’s the number of times they eat, it’s the number of times the fumes of firewood go up from the house, the size of farmland or type of crops grown, etc.”

Then the groups resume in plenary and report back the criteria and parameters discussed.

“The CBT team would then compile the criteria and parameters and ask each group to return to their break-out sessions and now begin to identify the households in the community that have been identified as fitting the criteria and parameters.

“Once that is done at the groups, everybody comes together again with names compiled by each group. Now, when the same name is featured in at least two of the three groups, it is deemed qualified to be listed on the Social Register.

At this stage, we now enumerate the members of the household and open a bank account for each of the caregivers by capturing the biometric data of households identified as among the poorest and vulnerable.”

According to Akande, in eight of the nine pilot States, this process had taken place at least two years ago under a programme supported by the World Bank under an agreement entered into directly with the state governments, on the YESSO project. The ninth state is Borno, which was added because of the IDP situation, with the list of the beneficiaries that has been verified by SEMA.

“This is an entirely fair and transparent process and short of mischief, there is no way you can describe this process as partisan. The President is President of the entire country and the SIPs are for all Nigerians as the case may be.”

In addition to the nine pilot states, and with the release of funds for the programmes, the CBT model has now commenced in other States.

The states have been updated on the requirements for the engagement by the Federal team and once the lists from States are enumerated; their details uploaded onto a server at the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System, NIBSS, which hosts the electronic platform that validates all the payments of the FG for the SIPs.

Banks have been informed that payments must be at community level, so those engaged for the pilot stage have in turn engaged several payment agents, to ensure cash-out to the beneficiaries in their places of residence which are distant to the bank locations.

http://www.thepost-ng.com/selected-beneficiaries-conditional-cash-transfer-fg/

FG’s N5,000 conditional cash transfer list of 8 states ready

There are indications that the list of beneficiaries of the Federal Government’s N5,000 conditional cash transfer for eight states is ready.


Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/fgs-n5000-conditional-cash-transfer-list-8-states-ready/

16 States Now Participating in FG’s Conditional Cash Transfer Programme


Sixteen states in Nigeria are now participating in the federal government’s Conditional Cash Transfer Programme, the National Programme Coordinator, Dr. Temitope Sinkaiye, has disclosed in Minna, Niger State capital on Monday.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2017/08/29/16-states-now-participating-in-fgs-conditional-cash-transfer-programme/

patrick89:
What do you know? This 5k is a very big recipe to idleness and unproductiveness. Get busy boy!

ManirBK:
Slow and steady we are[b] reaching there[/b]!!