FG cash transfer begins in Kaduna with 10,623 beneficiaries

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- Kaduna state commissioner for rural and community development Hassan Usman Hunkuyi

- Hunkuyi said government cash transfer of N5,000 every month started in the state with 10,623 beneficiaries

- He said each of the beneficiaries will collect the sum of N10,000 because they did not collect the February allowance

The federal government cash transfer of N5,000 every month has commenced in Kaduna state with 10,623 beneficiaries drawn from nine local government areas of the state.

Nigerian Tribune reports that the state commissioner for rural and community development Hassan Usman Hunkuyi declared that the local governments were drawn from the three senatorial zones.

Usman said: ''In the northern senatorial zone, we have Ikara, Kubau, Lere LGAs, while in the central senatorial zone, we have, Birnin Gwari Chikun, Kajuru LGAs, and the southern senatorial sone, we have Kachia Kauru and Sanga LGAs.''

He said each of the beneficiaries will collect the sum of N10,000 because they did not collect the February allowance.

Usman noted that the delayed in the disbursement was due to the fact that the federal ministry of finance was computing the names they got from the state.

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The commissioner maintained that the programme was part of the government effort to address extreme poverty and other forms of vulnerability under the National Social Safety-Nets Programme (NASSP) in collaboration with the World Bank to support the sustainability of the social protection programme across Nigeria.

Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported that the government commenced steps to ensure quick commencement of the federal government’s agricultural initiative to provide jobs for 360,000 youths nationwide, the governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele said.

Emefiele made the disclosure in Abuja on Friday, October 6, at a stakeholders’ meeting on the operational framework for the Accelerated Agricultural Development Scheme (AADS).

He said AADS was targeted primarily at unemployed youths between the ages of 18 and 35. Emefiele said through the scheme, a minimum of 10,000 youths in each state, willing to engage in sustainable and profitable activities along the agriculture value chain, would be employed and trained.

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