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The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said knowing the grave health implication of the global pandemic, Coronavirus

The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on Monday said resources provided to tackle COVID-19 in the 2022 budget would be closely monitored to ensure

Zamfara government has sought the intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari to resolve alleged irregularities in the Federal Government’s Conditional Cash Transfer programme in the state. | Pulse Nigeria

The Federal Government’s Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP) helped Nigeria to cope with the economic shock caused by COVID-19. The presidency said with the stimulus package, the economy did not decline as feared when the pandemic broke out. Laolu Akande, presidential spokesman in a statement said over 2 million jobs have been both created and saved, with N500billion released as at the end of May. The breakdown indicates that 1.3 million jobs have been retained through interventions in the Mic...

The event was flagged off by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has often claimed that its Social Investment Program (SIP), part of which was designed to pay N5000 monthly into the accounts of supposed vulnerable Nigerians, is a fulfillment of the government’s promise of taking citizens out of poverty. According to Osinbajo, the major objective of the RRR was to use a technology-based method to identify urban poor Nigerians who will receive the stipend ev...

Sunday Aborisade, Abuja The Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, on Thursday, lamented that there was nothing on the ground to show for the huge budgetary allocation made by the Federal Government towards its Social Intervention Programme in the 2020 budget. Ndume, who spoke with journalists in Abuja, on the implementation of the 2020 budget, urged the youths and all the intended beneficiaries of the N729bn social intervention funds, to hold government agencies accountable. Th...