Social Intervention Programmes: Niger State receives over N27bn

Abdul Mohammed Isa, Niger State.

On Jul 2, 2021

The Niger State Government, North-Central Nigeria, has received over Twenty-Seven Billion Naira (N27,000,000,000) in the past five years for various Social Intervention Programmes initiated by the Nigerian government.

Barrister Amina Gu’ar, Special Adviser to the Governor of Niger State on Social Intervention, stated this during a Press briefing in Minna, the State capital.

Barrister Gu’ar explained that the Social intervention Programme (SIP) was of four components:

The N-Power, which has already gulped a sum of N11, 041, 290,000; the Conditional Cash Transfer- N3.8bn; the Home Grown School Feeding- N12, 226, 082, 400; while the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme stood at N951, 640,000.

“The Batch A of the N-Power Scheme commenced in 2016 with 4,467 and Batch B in 2017 with 7,704 beneficiaries of N30,000 monthly stipends.

“Home Grown School Feeding has over 14,000 beneficiaries in the State with 560,000 children, 5,971 cooks engaged and 1,146 local suppliers,” Gu’ar explained.

Barrister Gu’ar applauded the Nigerian government for the social welfare initiative by investing in the lives of the poor and vulnerable across the State.

According to Gu’ar, Batch C of the N-Power registration is in process for onward beneficiaries to apply.