The federal government has started cash transfer to the poorest households in Nigeria to cushion the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, Sadiya Farouq, made this known in Abuja on Monday, March 30.
Farouk said her ministry has commenced advance payment of conditional cash transfer to the poorest households in the country.
She said: “In Mr. President’s speech, paragraph 54, he directed that the conditional cash transfer should be given in advance of two months.
“This we have also done. We have directed immediate cash transfer to the poorest and most vulnerable households in the country.
“Because of this COVID-19, the vulnerable groups have to expanded, because we are aware that there are people who live on daily wage, so we are also going to look at those groups of people to see how we can get this food relief intervention to them in this period.”