The National Economic Council, chaired by Vice President Kashim Shettima, has decided to scrap the national social register due to credibility concerns during Muhammadu Buhari’s government.
Instead, the council recommended a social register-based cash transfer program for states and a six-month cash incentive program for public employees.
The Vice-President, 36 state governors, a representative of the governor of the central bank, and other co-opted government officials held a lengthy discussion in the state house on Thursday that resulted in this resolution.
The council’s meeting today had as its top priority finding a solution to alleviate poverty for the poor in order to lessen the impact of the removal of fuel subsidies.
The National Social Safety Nets Project was formed in 2016 by the Buhari administration with the assistance of the World Bank.
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