The Nigerian Federal Government has announced that paying of money to the poorest households in the country to help them get through this lockdown period has already started.
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, revealed this important news during a press conference in the capital, Abuja, on Monday.
Lagos and Abuja have been put on lockdown to fight the spread of the virus, slowing down economic activity which helps many families survive.
To combat that, the government has announced some would receive financial aid.
“In Mr. President’s speech, paragraph 54, he directed that the conditional cash transfer should be given in advance of two months. This we have also done. We have directed immediate cash transfer to the poorest and most vulnerable households in the country,” Farouq revealed.
“Because of this COVID-19, the vulnerable groups have to be expanded, because we are aware that there are people who live on daily wage, so we are also going to look at those groups of people to see how we can get this food relief intervention to them in this period,” she added.
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