The Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning in conjunction with other international development partners is set to host an enlightenment webinar session billed to enable stakeholders effectively understand the provisions of the National Social Protection Policy and make their input in the planned process for its review.
Schedule to hold tomorrow, the webinar is designed to sensitise the public on the policy and its relevance to them. As part of stakeholder engagement, the general public is considered a major stakeholder and the webinar will serve as a buildup to further planned consultations with the ministries and their development partners.
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February 3, 2021
The Federal Government has called on States and the Federal Capital Territory to provide the necessary leadership and resources for the implementation of Social Protection and SDGs activities.
The Permanent Secretary, Budget and National Planning and Chairperson, Technical Working Group (TWG) National Social Protection Policy, Mrs. Olusola Idowu, made the call at the Joint Zonal Consultation on Review of the Social Protection Policy and institutionalizing Social Protection for Accelerated SDGs Implementation in Enugu on Wednesday.
In a statement by the Ministry’s Director of Information, Mrs Victoria Agba-Attah in Abuja, the Permanent Secretary explained that the purpose of the Zonal consultative meeting was to harvest inputs from the zones for the finalization of the Policy.
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Federal Government has called on states and the FCT to provide the necessary leadership and resources for the implementation of social protection and activities of sustainable development goals (SDGs).
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Budget and National Planning, Mrs Olusola Idowu, made this call Wednesday in her remarks at the Joint Zonal Consultation on Review of the Social Protection Policy and institutionalizing Social Protection for Accelerated SDGs Implementation in Nigeria, holding in Enugu.
In a statement issued by Director Information, Victoria Agba-Attah, Idowu, who is also Chairperson, Technical Working Group (TWG) National Social Protection Policy, stated that the purpose of the Zonal consultative meeting was to harvest inputs from the zones for the finalization of the Policy.
Buhari. Photo: TWITTER/NIGERIAGOVEvidently, the implementation of the Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP) has gained traction and unarguably is achieving the desired impact on the Nigerian economy.
For the benefit of hindsight, the COVID-19 pandemic which was first reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019 triggered a strangulating global economic downturn. x
In its second wave, the pandemic has continued to decimate the world’s population amidst the vaccine race.
On March 30, 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari, set up the Economic Sustainability Committee(ESC), chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to develop an economic sustainability plan to last until 2023.
The ESC was mandated inter alia: To develop a stimulus package and come up with measures to cushion the impact of the pandemic on the economy.
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(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A cross section of Nigerians on Twitter are criticising the plan of the government to lift 20 million Nigerian out of poverty in two years through a cash transfer scheme.
African Examiner reports that Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) on Tuesday during the flag-off of the cash transfer scheme called Rapid Response Register (RRR), stated that the federal government plans to lift 20 million Nigerians out of poverty in the next two years.
Osinbajo said: “The groundbreaking success of the RRR, now emboldens us to achieve our aspiration of a social security programme for a minimum of twenty million Nigerians in the next two years. This will be the largest of its kind on the continent. This (aspiration) is, at least from the perspective of this tested approach, now well within our reach.