Mr Oricha said the project is designed to improve girls’ education and support vulnerable families across Kogi.
The conditional cash transfer would provide 15 million Nigerian households with a cash transfer of N25,000 for three months.
Yusuf Idris, the publicity secretary of the APC in Zamfara, said “the president has really performed creditably in the last seven years.”
“It is consistent with President Buhari’s deliberate National agenda of lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in 10 years.”
The regime says the World Bank has promised to support its poverty-alleviation programme with up to $700 million.
Buhari’s regime says it is ready to pay 12 out of the 14 months’ stipends it owes indigent households in Oyo as it resumes payment of stipends to beneficiaries.
The official said that the social investment intervention had recorded successes across the state and had helped in reducing poverty.
Mechanisms for mutual accountability should be taken seriously to rebuild public confidence for citizens to trust the government.
Federal government has appointed about 300 independent cash monitors for the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) in Bauchi.
Thirteen local government areas in the state are said to be currently benefiting from the programme.
