President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has suspended all programmes administered by the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA)
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In a statement released on Friday, the Director of Information at the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Segun Imohiosen, revealed that this decision by the President comes in light of the “Ongoing investigation of alleged malfeasance in the management of the agency and its programmes.
“All four (4) programmes administered by NSIPA, viz., the N-Power Programme, the Conditional Cash Transfer Programme, the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme, and the Home Grown School Feeding Programme (the “Programmes”), have been suspended for a period of six weeks in the first instance,” the statement read in part.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has suspended all administered programmes by the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), the Federal Government said.
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Tinubu also constituted a ministerial panel to conduct a thorough review of the agency’s operations to recommend necessary reforms of the NSIPA.
During the period of this suspension, all NSIPA-related activities, including but not limited to all distributions, events, payments, collaborations and registrations are now frozen.
The President also assured Nigerians that his administration remains committed to a swift and unbiased process that will ensure that, going forward, social intervention programmes will work exactly as intended, to the benefit of the most vulnerable Nigerians.
