Nigerian senator opposes online registration for N500 billion social intervention programme

Senate leader, Muhammad Ndume, on Sunday, objected to the use of on-line registration to select beneficiaries of Federal Government’s N500 billion Social Intervention Fund. Addressing journalists in Maiduguri, Mr. Ndume, who represents Borno South at the National Assembly, said that using internet registration for the programme would deprive many qualified Nigerians from benefiting. “The N500 billion Social Intervention Fund has started on a wrong footing, so we are not going to agree; we are not going to let it pass like other previous interventions without tangible gains. “We do not…

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