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In line with its infrastructural development campaign mantra, the Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday, approved over N809.7 billion for various signature projects including roads, fire fighting vehicles and equipment as well as development of an application for design, development, deployment, and management of National Social Investment Management System (NSIMS) for the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP).
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By Steve Oko
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management & Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, has hinted that the Federal Government is targeting to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in 10 years.
The Minister made the disclosure Friday in Umuahia Abia State while flagging off the training of National Social Investment Programme, NSIF, monitors.
The 70 independent monitors are to evaluate the various social investment programmes of the federal government in the 17 Local Government Areas of the state.
She decried the level of poverty in the country occasioned by many global challenges including covid-19 pandemic, but assured that the federal government was making frantic efforts to cushion the effect of hardship and navigate the country out of the woods.
The minister, represented by Dr
Umar Bindir, the National Coordinator of the NSIP, said that the monitors were carefully selected across the 21 local government areas of the state.
“The National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) was created by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2016 with the mandate of lifting citizens out of poverty through its various interventions.
“So far, about 13 million citizens across the 36 States and the FCT are benefitting from the interventions.
“And today, we are training Independent Monitors that will monitor the interventions programmes at the community level,”
Farouq said.
She noted that their core role was to monitor programme beneficiaries within their locality with the focus of ensuring that the primary objectives were achieved.