The National Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy, (NPRGS), says N400 billion has been approved for various poverty reduction schemes in 2022.
Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, stated this when spoke with State House correspondents after a meeting of the NPRGS National Steering Committee yesterday, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari, in 2021, inaugurated the NPRGS to be chaired by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo.
Gov. Sule said the meeting was to review the implementation of what was approved in the budget. He further said that the first highlight of the meeting was to commend the technical groups that had been able to put together their budget request.
The governor listed some of the programmes through which the Federal Government was implementing the NPRGS.
According to him, Looking at what is available in the budget this year, which is roughly N400 billion, the Humanitarian Ministry is going to take N350 billion for the expansion of the various programmes like Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) Conditional Cash Transfer, Farmer Money, Market Money and the rest of that”.
There is also another N50 billion that is going to be reserved for the various other programmes, like in the Ministry of Agriculture for rural roads and electricity, with regards to solar. Those are the various areas that we discussed, he said.
President Muhammadu Buhari on June 22, 2021, inaugurated the Committee, tasked with driving the target of lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in 10 years.
