From:Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
Federal government said about 4,000 women across the 23 local government councils of kaduna state are to benefit from the on going Cash Grant for Rural Women Project. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, disclosed this while flagging off the disbursement of the funds to the beneficiaries, in kaduna yesterday. The Minister represented bythe Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Bashir Nura Alkali, said the federal government is committed to alleviating the plight of rural women in the country. The Minister stated that the project was introduced in 2020 to sustain the social inclusion agenda of the President Buhari’s administration.
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Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq
The Federal Government says there is no form of corruption and inefficiency in the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Programme under the National Social Investment Programme.
Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja said any contrary story against the programme was false.
Farouq explained that unpatriotic persons were trying to give the programme a bad name and image contrary to the reality on ground.
She said the programme was introduced by the Federal Government in 2016, in partnership with the World Bank to fortify social safety nets and establish a social protection system in Nigeria.
A new beginning
Protracted armed conflict in Kalilangan village in the hinterlands of Iligan City, Lanao del Norte province, has displaced around 320 families.
In 2020, they experienced fleeing to the village capital and staying in a school building and barangay hall thrice. Other displaced families sought shelter with relatives in a neighboring town. Article 21 January 2021 Philippines
Ignacio Lihayan, leader of the indigenous Higaonon tribe, and his family live in Samid-samid Upper Kalilangan, the area most affected by the recurrent clashes. Majority of the displaced community members are farmers whose main source of income is rice and corn production.
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Nagsalig mi sa lagot-mon na pang uma og sa abaca na produkto. Sakto lang na nga panginabuhi sa ako ug uban sa akong pamilya (“We relied on root crop farming and abaca production for income, and it was enough for me and my family to get by),” he recalled.
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that torpedoes a payment out there, ingrained opposition to others getting something for nothing, the most revolutionary aspect of the universal cash grant, breaking the link between work and reward is the most controversial, you understand objections to that concept. the great thing is if everyone is getting it that objection tends to disappear. there is one state that had a dividends for everyone in the state for almost 40 years and that is a deep red conservative state, alaska where everyone is getting an oil dividends between $1000 and $2000 a year and is wildly popular 40 years in. what i m saying is technology is the oil of the 21st-century. we can do this for all our people particularly because the marketplace is not recognizing the kind of work my wife does at home with our two boys every single day or the work millions of stay-at-home parents or caregivers are doing, some of the most important work in our