The North East Development Commission (NEDC) has donated relief materials to 60 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) whose property were recently destroyed by fire in Bauchi. Alhaji Muhammad Umar, Deputy General Manager, Resettlement and Early Recovery, presented the materials to the officials of the camp in Bauchi on Wednesday. He said they were in the camp
Findings revealed that millions were released for the construction of the acquisition centres in the two LGAs. Specifically, the sum of N41million was released in order to actualise the two centres in the LGAs on 31st December 2019.
The Federal Government has disbursed about N18 million to 1,799 beneficiaries in Kafinhausa Local Government Area of Jigawa, under its Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme
[FILES] Jigawa state. Photo; Progressive Geographies
The Federal Government has disbursed about N18 million to 1,799 beneficiaries in Kafinhausa Local Government Area of Jigawa, under its Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the programme is one of the four Social Investment Programmes (SIP) of the Federal Government. The Information Officer in the local government council, Alhaji Muhammad Umar, made the disclosure in a statement made available to newsmen in Dutse on Saturday. Umar said that each of the beneficiaries, selected from Balangu, Dumadumi and Gafaya wards of the LGA, received N10,000. He quoted the Coordinator, Special Intervention Programme (SIP) in the council area, Mr Umar Aliko, as noting that the gesture was aimed at improving the lives of the beneficiaries and lifting the most vulnerable groups out of poverty.