The federal government says it
has registered a total of 3,031,065 individuals and 755, 112 households in the
ongoing national social register being handled by the National Social
Safety-Nets Coordinating Office (NASSCO).
NAN reports that the report would
provide a gateway for people to register and be considered for potential
inclusion in social programs.
In 2017, the federal government
had said it would register about five million Nigerians in the national social
register for the poor and vulnerable households.
According to the 2019 report
which was signed by Apera Iorwa, the NASSCO national coordinator NASSCO,
registration has been carried out in 26 states and Abuja, the federal capital
territory.
The states are Abia, Adamawa,
Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bauchi, Benue, Cross River, Delta, Ekiti, FCT, Gombe, Imo,
Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger, Osun, Oyo,
Plateau, Rivers, Taraba and Zamfara.
Of all the three million people
registered, only 3.22% are persons living with various forms of disabilities.
A further breakdown showed that
1,499,042 were males while 1,532,023 were females.
Katsina had the highest number of
vulnerable households with a nominal value of 113,268 households and 507,160
individuals.
“The NSR has state coordinating
offices set up in all but one state with a memorandum of understanding signed
with 36 states and the FCT.
The report states that NASSCO
will formally inform social intervention stakeholders on the data availability
of Poor, Vulnerable households for mining.
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