{"id":20528,"date":"2024-02-22T10:33:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T10:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=20528"},"modified":"2024-02-22T10:33:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T10:33:14","slug":"fg-set-to-resume-direct-cash-transfers-to-12-million-nigerians-edun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/22\/fg-set-to-resume-direct-cash-transfers-to-12-million-nigerians-edun\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Set to Resume Direct Cash Transfers to 12 Million Nigerians &#8211; Edun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to ameliorate the prevailing hardship currently faced by Nigerians, the federal government has disclosed plans to resume providing direct cash transfers to 12 million Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>This was made known by Wale Edun, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, at the Ministry\u2019s retreat in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom state on Wednesday, February 21.<\/p>\n<p>According to the finance minister, \u201cThe presidential panel on the social investment programmes, is set to meet with Mr. President with an internal recommendation to restart the direct payments to the poorest and the most vulnerable. Everything is being done to ease the pain. \u201cWe know that there\u2019s been about 3 million beneficiaries now, but given the way the rates have gone, there are probably another 12 million people, households that can benefit from that payment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to ameliorate the prevailing hardship currently faced by Nigerians, the federal government has disclosed plans to resume providing direct cash transfers to 12 million Nigerians. This was made known by Wale Edun, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, at the Ministry\u2019s retreat in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom state on Wednesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":20529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[645],"class_list":["post-20528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-finance-minister"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20530,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528\/revisions\/20530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}