{"id":58371,"date":"2024-12-23T16:35:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T16:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58371"},"modified":"2024-12-23T16:35:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T16:35:18","slug":"fg-launches-%e2%82%a625000-cash-transfer-for-15-million-households","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/23\/fg-launches-%e2%82%a625000-cash-transfer-for-15-million-households\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Launches \u20a625,000 Cash Transfer for 15 Million Households"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has unveiled plans to support 15 million households, representing 75 million Nigerians, through a conditional cash transfer scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Each household will receive \u20a625,000 monthly, disbursed three times a year, to alleviate economic hardship among vulnerable citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, Nentawe Yilwatda Yilwatda, announced the initiative on Channels Television\u2019s The Morning Brief.<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted the program as part of President Bola Tinubu\u2019s directive to ease financial challenges for low-income Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president was clear about addressing the challenges faced by those at the lower end of the economic pyramid.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative targets 15 million households registered under the conditional cash transfer program,\u201d Yilwatda said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister noted that 5 million individuals have already benefited from the scheme, with efforts underway to update the social register.<\/p>\n<p>Initially suspended in January due to corruption allegations, the program was relaunched in February to expand its reach by an additional 12 million households.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative forms part of President Tinubu\u2019s broader strategy to tackle economic challenges and improve the livelihoods of Nigeria\u2019s most vulnerable citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu The Federal Government has unveiled plans to support 15 million households, representing 75 million Nigerians, through a conditional cash transfer scheme. Each household will receive \u20a625,000 monthly, disbursed three times a year, to alleviate economic hardship among vulnerable citizens. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, Nentawe Yilwatda Yilwatda, announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58371","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58373,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58371\/revisions\/58373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}