Following the locked down as ordered by President Buhari, reports has it that the Federal Government is set to give 1 million poor Nigerians N20,000 each due to the scourge of COVID-19.
On Wednesday , 31st of March, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadia Umar-Farouk,announced that the Federal Government will be giving out N20,000 per person for the next four months starting from March 2020.
She further explained that the President during his broadcast last week directed that the conditional cash transfer should be given in advance of two months.
In her words “We have directed immediate cash transfer to the poorest and most vulnerable households in the country,”
“Because of this COVID-19, the vulnerable groups have to expand, 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