Two Million Nigerians Get N10 Billion Monthly Stipends

The Federal Government has said it pays two million households N10 billion monthly.

The government explained that the households were captured under its Conditional Cash Transfer programme.

It was also revealed that over 10 million pupils benefit from its school feeding programme.

This was disclosed in Abuja by the National Coordinator of the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP), Dr Umar Bindr, during the NSIP annual strategic review meeting.

Speaking on its efforts to lift 100million Nigerians out of poverty, Bindr said: “We have more than 10 million applicants nationwide, but we have successfully managed to onboard 2 million, and we are consistently paying these households N5000 per month. The households have an average number of five to seven people.