Thread by @NGRPresident

"We not only implemented a new national minimum wage, but we also, last year, put forward legislation that ensured that minimum wage earners would pay no income tax." - Vice President @ProfOsinbajo
#GovtAtWorkNG

“We established the largest Social Investment Programme in Sub-Saharan Africa and we have since expanded many of its component programmes including @HUPcct for the poor from 2.6 million households (13m persons) to 7.2 million households (about 30m persons)." - VP @ProfOsinbajo

"... and COVID-19 Rapid Response for the Urban Poor which now has 4 million households (20 million persons).” - VP @ProfOsinbajo

“Our agriculture programme(under the Economic Sustainability Plan) aims at expanding productivity, creating a total of about 5 million jobs. What we have done so far is that we've been able to register and geo-tag about 5 million new farmers to farmland areas." - VP @ProfOsinbajo

"The programme is also supporting smallholder farmers by linking them to extension services and low-interest input financing." - VP @ProfOsinbajo

“We also have a mass housing programme which is designed to deliver affordable homes through direct intervention in the housing construction sector aimed at creating 1.8 million jobs together with the construction of 300,000 homes in the first phase." - VP @ProfOsinbajo

"At the moment, the [mass housing] programme is ongoing in 12 states which will be expanded to all of the states in the federation.” - VP @ProfOsinbajo

“Since February 2020 (when Nigeria confirmed its first COVID-19 case), we have significantly ramped up our testing and case management capacity. We have activated from about 5 molecular laboratories to about 120, most of them public laboratories." - VP @ProfOsinbajo #GovtAtWorkNG

“We have expanded the footprint of our sovereign public health response capacity, especially at the sub-national level, and in areas where such capabilities didn’t exist before." - VP @ProfOsinbajo

“We [have] sought to protect the most vulnerable, in particular, the urban poor who were also hard hit. What we did was to provide direct cash transfers to the urban poor, many of them who are captured in a social register." - VP @ProfOsinbajo #CovidStimulus #GovtAtWorkNG

"... In the first phase of that, we are able to benefit about 1 million beneficiaries, and we are now in a position using the same social register to scale up the programme to about 20 million beneficiaries.” - VP @ProfOsinbajo