The Federal Government, yesterday, said it invested a sum of over N1.358 trillion to improve the lives of vulnerable Nigerians through its National Social Investment Programmes (NSIP) in the last seven years, from 2016 to 2022.
These social programmes include N-power; Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme, (GEEP); National Home-grown School Feeding Programme, (NHGSFP); Conditional Cash Transfers, and Independent Monitors, (IM).
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiyya Farouq, disclosed this when she was featured on the 23rd edition of the President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) Administration scorecard series organised by the Ministry of Information and Culture in Abuja, informed that the N890.7 billion was spent on N-power, with N246 billion on CCT, N17.6 billion on GEEP, N2.7 million on IM, while the school feeding programme gulped N200.9 billion.
Farouq stated that the ministry has directly touched the lives of over 15 million individuals and their families.
Giving a further breakdown, the minister stated that 9,990,862 pupils are being fed in 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), adding that 3,098,600 million youths have benefitted from the N-power programme, out of which one million are receiving N30,000 monthly stipend; a total of 185,919 persons are beneficiaries under GEEP; while CCT has paid 1,940, 335 vulnerable persons N5,000 monthly, and 355,000 persons have received grants of N20,000.
She also disclosed that there are over 15 million households and over 61 million individuals on the national social register.
According to Farouq, the activities of the ministry have impacted significantly on the lives of vulnerable Nigerians and have reduced poverty prevalence.
In his remarks, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, assured Nigerians that the Federal Government is working assiduously to resolve the new naira and fuel scarcity.
The Minister said despite the antics of the opposition, the Government is willing to take decisive steps to bring succour to Nigerians in the shortest possible time.
