Mrs Maryam Uwais, Special Adviser
to the President on Social Protection, says about 67 per cent of Nigerian
population live below poverty line.
Uwais said this during a social
protection Practitioners and Academics Dialogue on Thursday in Abuja.
According to her, some of the
social issues that plaque Nigeria is high poverty, high unemployment rates,
increased insecurity, gender inequality and poor literacy rates, among others.
She added that social protection
was a response and a key strategy towards reducing poverty and socio-economic
vulnerabilities in the population as well as to encourage G2p payments
digitalisation and financial inclusion.
Uwais also said that the Federal
Government has designed a four-point National Social Investment Programme
(N-SIP), including Conditional Cash Transfer Programme (CCT).
“This involves the direct transfer
of N5,000 to the targeted poor and vulnerable households.
“The Home Grown School Feeding
(HGSF) assist vulnerable families, feed their classes, primary 1-3 school
children one nutritious meal a day and provides an incentive to send them to
school which is targeted to feed 5.5 million children.
“The N-Power Programme is
designed to put 500,000 young Nigerian graduates on employment and empower or
train 100,000 of non-graduates with necessary tools to create, develop and
build projects that will change our communities, economy and nation.
“There is also Government
Enterprise Empowerment Programme (GEEP), which is targeted financial inclusion
and empowerment loans programme to deliver maximum impact to the economically
under- represented groups that targets about 1.6 million beneficiaries,’’ said
the presidential aide.
She said that for National Social
Programme to move forward the cooperation of stakeholders was key in
actualising it in terms of knowledge, resources and skills for transformative
undertaking.
Uwais called on stakeholders to
partner with the initiative, saying that the complex issues facing Nigeria
would be met with comprehensive solutions by collective efforts to invest in
the strongest and most promising sector.
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