Tag: Hajia Sadiya Umar Farouq

THE NATIONAL CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMME : A LOFTY SCHEME By Bola Bakare

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A little over six years ago, when the Buhari administration settled down to its pivotal task of reformation, not just with regards to the infrastructural decay but also with regards to an overhaul of the country’s human capital which, sadly, over the years, as a result of negligence, had suffered so much depravity. The average Nigerian, thus, had been plunged and had sunk to a poverty level so abysmal that it required a very urgent and sincere effort to salvage.   Many Nigerians then lived below poverty level, despair had…

School Feeding Scam: Sadiya Farouq dissociates Self, Ministry from diversion

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Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Sadiya Farouq has dissociated herself and office from a trending report in the media titled “N2.72b for School Feeding During Lockdown Diverted To Private Accounts”.   The Minister who reminded that the money for Home Grown School Feeding does not pass through her nor Ministry, called on the Independent Corrupt Practices and other offences Commission to freeze the accounts where the said funds were diverted. This clarification was contained in a statement signed by the Special Assistant on Media to the Minister, Nneka…

Re- Corruption Rocks NEDC as group fingers Minister of Humanitarian Affairs By Adamu Balarabe

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I was jolted with the news that the honourable minister for Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development is involved in an infraction in the North East Development Commission, an agency under her ministry. From the onset, I dismissed the report as arrant nonsense and a joke. I took my time to scrutinize the allegations. I found out that there were not only spurious but a figment of the imagination of the group. As a start, Hajia Sadiya Umar Farouq is a very proud woman that protects her name and…

NASS Leadership Denies Newspaper reports on NSIP

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The leadership of the National Assembly has reacted to some newspaper reports on its meeting with the Honourable Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia Sadiya Umar Farouq, which held on Tuesday 7th April, 2020. The leadership of the National Assembly had called the meeting as part of the Legislature’s collaborations with the executive arm of government for effective management of the Coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria and mitigation of the harsh effects of the measures adopted in this respect on Nigerians. The focus of the said meeting…

Lawan, Gbajabiamila fault SIP implementation, want the scheme backed by law

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The leadership of the National Assembly has faulted the way the Social Investment Programme of the Federal Government is being implemented and called for an enabling legislation in line with global best practices. The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila made their reservations about the scheme at a meeting held on Tuesday with the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia Sadiya Umar Farouq and some top officials of the Ministry. The meeting was attended…