Business Interview
Mr. Apera Iorwa is the National Coordinator, National Social Safetynets Coordinating Office (NASSCO), an agency of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Coordinating the National Safetynets Programme. In this interview with Ndubuisi Francis, he provides perspectives on sundry nagging issues
What in essence does your office entail?
The federal government in 2016 (of course at the coming of the current administration in 2015) prioritised social protection as a strategy to poverty alleviation or an approach to dealing with the poverty question in Nigeria and so that then gave rise to them approaching the World Bank and in partnership with the World Bank, established the national safetynets programme.
The Federal Government has said that a total of 56.1 million poor and vulnerable Nigerians had yet to be identified and registered in the National Social Register (NSR), as at January 31, 2021
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