Federal Government Set To Resume Npower And Other Social Investment Programmes
According to Npower News in the middle of the ongoing investigations and calls for reinstatement of the suspended Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Betta Edu, the Federal Government reveals plans to resume Npower and other social investment programmes coordinated by the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA).
According to Mohammed Idris, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, made this known during a radio interview in Kaduna that the committee set up by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to review the operational mechanism of the national social investment programme has submitted its report.
This gives way for the resumption of Npower, Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT), Government Enterprise and Empowerment programme (GEEP), and the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) affecting millions of vulnerable households.
Additionally, the government intends to reinvest savings from the removal of electricity subsidies into improving power supply and other vital social services.
Plans for agricultural interventions and investments in the procurement of compressed natural gas (CNG) buses are also discussed by the minister, highlighting the administration's multifaceted approach to addressing socio-economic challenges across various sectors.
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