Federal Government begins payment of N5,000 monthly stipends to poor Nigerians

  

   As part of its determined efforts to touch the lives of Nigerians positively the Buhari administration has started the payment of N5, 000 monthly stipends to the poorest and the most vulnerable in the country through the Conditional Cash Transfer, CCT, of its Social Investment Programmes, SIP.

    Under the CCT, one million Nigerians would receive N5000 monthly payments as a form of social safety net for the poorest and most vulnerable as budgeted for in the 2016 Budget.

In the first batch that commenced last week, nine states would be covered, and many of the beneficiaries have already reported receiving their first payments by Friday last week, December 30, 2016.

   The commencement of the payment under the CCT was announced yesterday in a statement from the Office of the Vice President, Prof YemiOsinbajo.

   The statement, signed by the Vice President’s spokesman LaoluAkande, said funds for the commencement of the payments in four states were released last week to the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System, NIBSS,  the platform that hosts and validates payments for all government’s social intervention programmes.

Funds for another set of five states to complete the first batch of nine states would follow soon.