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Business News of Wednesday, 24 February 2021

Source: thenationonlineng.net

Fed govt trains 5,000 monitors

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The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has trained over 5,000 independent monitors across the country, to assess the implementation of the various National Social Investment Programmes (NSIP).

Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq revealed this during the training of 198 of the monitors in Kaduna yesterday.

The Minister said the essence of the training was for the monitors to keep an eye on the national investment programmes of the Federal Government.

Hajiya Farouq said the monitors will be assigned within their locality in schools, households, and market clusters with the focus of ensuring that the primary objectives of the programmes are achieved.

Represented by her Special Assistant on Legal Matters, Maymunah Idris, the Minister noted that the “National Social Investment Programmes (NSIP) was created by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2016 with the mandate of lifting citizens out of poverty through a number of social interventions.”

Farouq advised the monitors to carry out their responsibility with diligence and sincerity.

She, therefore, urged the monitors “to carry out this task with a sense of patriotism.

The Kaduna State Director of National Orientation Agency (NOA), Galadima Zubairu Soba reiterated that the programme is designed to lift Nigerians out of poverty, adding that they should help one another.

One of the monitors, Binta Mohammed Idris said they would do their best to achieve success.