The Federal Government has approved the sum of N400 billion under the National Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy.
This covers certain welfare schemes which include the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme, Conditional Cash Transfer, Farmer Money, and Market Money.
The approval for 2022 was made known by the Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, while speaking with State House correspondents after a meeting of the National Steering Committee of the NPRGS, at Aso Rock in Abuja, to review the implementation of what was approved in the budget.