Minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social Farouk announced this at a press conference in Abuja. She said
“In Mr. President’s speech, paragraph 54, he directed that the “Because of this COVID-19, the vulnerable groups have to expanded, Lagos and Abuja are currently on lockdown as part of measures to
development, Sadiya Farouq, says the Federal government has begun cash
transfer to the poorest households in the country to cushion the
economic impact of the Coronavirus pandemic.
her ministry has commenced advance payment of conditional cash transfer
to the poorest households in the country. She however did not disclose
the amount of cash that is being transfered to the poor.
conditional cash transfer should be given in advance of two months. This
we have also done. We have directed immediate cash transfer to the
poorest and most vulnerable households in the country.
because we are aware that there are people who live on daily wage, so we
are also going to look at those groups of people to see how we can get
this food relief intervention to them in this period.” she said
contain the spread of Coronavirus. As of this morning, Nigeria has 131
confirmed cases of Coronavirus.
Coronavirus: We’ve started immediate cash transfer to poorest households, says FG
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