The Anambra state Commissioner for Economic Planning, Budget and Development Partners, Mr. Mark Okoye said that 29,214 poor and vulnerable households from Urban and Semi-Urban wards of the Anambra State will receive cash transfer for a period of 6 months.
Mr. Okoye made this disclosure during the Stakeholders Sensitization on Rapid Response Register (RRR) in Awka.
The Commissioner represented by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Dr. Dan Ezeanwu said that the programme is alligned to the Federal Government's agenda of...
lifting one hundred million Nigerians out of poverty by 2025.
Mr. Okoye noted that Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has put in place, measures to cushion the economic shocks of Covid-19 pandemic, in collaboration with...
World bank and the cash transfer is one of them
Anambra West, Ayamelum, Awka North, Dunukofia, Ekwusigo, Onitsha South, Ogbaru, Oyi and Orumba North Local Government Areas have been selected for the scheme.
According to him, the selection is based on scientific method of Satellite Remote Sensing Technology, Machine Learning Algorithm and Big Data Analysis, which provided the basis for ranking the wards according to poverty index and availability of resources.
According to Mr. Okoye, enumerators from Anambra state will meet applicants at their residence to take additional information, including means of identification such as National Identification Number, and bank account details.
The registered individuals will subsequently be paid through a fully digitized payment system via bank accounts.
THREAD: Police Sergeant, Loveday Obilonu, attached to the Department of Operations of the Imo Police Command HQ Owerri, was shot dead at Okwuuratta road of Chukwuma Nwoha Road, Owerri, on Wednesday.
His family suspects he was assassinated and begs for investigation and justice.
His corpse was lying inside the gutter as at the time his cousin, Okara, and police operatives arrived with an ambulance and evacuated him.
Okara told our correspondent the killing of his relative was suspicious.
He said the slain cop’s two phones had been taken to his wife.
He said he suspected Obilonu was assassinated, urging the police to painstakingly investigate the murder incident.
“I suspect that my younger cousin was assassinated because no less than five bullets were released on his head.
THREAD: Angry youths on Tuesday invaded a church at Obubara Junction in Ebonyi State and reportedly discovered human parts, charms and people's names written on a strange wood.
The Pastor in charge of church was stripped naked following the shocking discoveries.
An eyewitness revealed that the Pastor's appearance and carriage in the so- called church environment has been noticed by many of the villagers to be suspicious, but for the seek of peace and law of karma no one has ever discuss anything unethical to him.
According to him, "Thanks to Almighty God who has made every of his secret known today by the villagers of Obubara junction in Izzi LGA."
"The Pastor was seen this morning making strange incarnations with a dead goat which the owner of the goat, a man living close to his...