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NSIP: Be diligent in your responsibilities, FG charges independent monitors
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The Representative of the Hon Minister, Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Barr. Maymuna Idris (middle, standing), Executive Assistant to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on Special Duties, Barr. Bridget Anyafulu (left), and the State Director, National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mr. Chris Anyabuine, at the flag off of Training/Onboarding of Independent Monitors for the integrated National Social Investment Programme in Delta State. Thursday
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, has, charged the 83 Independent Monitors of the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) in Delta State to carry out their responsibilities with utmost diligence and sincerity.
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The Federal Government has begun the training of 5,000 independent monitors for the National Social Investment Programmes (NSIP) to supervise the activities in the programmes and beneficiaries across the country.
Hajiya Sadiya Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, at the inaugural ceremony on Thursday in Abuja said the NSIP was created by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2016.
The NSIP include N-POWER, National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP), Conditional Cash Transfer Programme (CCT) and the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP).
Farouq said the scopes of these programmes were large, with about 13 million citizens across 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) benefiting from the intervention.