FG to use BVN, phone recharge history to determine palliatives
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Sadiya Farouq
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Sadiya Farouq has declared that her Ministry will focus on the urban poor, National Social Register as well as Bank Verification Number (BVN) to determine who benefits from the distribution palliatives to cushion the biting effect of COVID-19 on Nigerians.
The Minister spoke while briefing State House Correspondents, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
“You are aware that the President in his broadcast of Monday 13th April, directed that we expand the beneficiaries of the conditional cash transfer by one million and in this regard, we are going to focus more now on the urban poor.
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