Civil servants in both state and local government areas’ employment in Nasarawa State are to enjoy N10,000 stipend for a period of six months as part of
“As you know, this is an initiative by the federal government in order to cushion the effect of the hardship created by the removal of fuel subsidy. I have mentioned it many times and I am sure so many people have already heard it. That a total of N5 billion is going to be given to every state but it’s not going to be all cash. N2 billion has been released to us as a government, N2 billion will be released later and this is for all the 36 states.
“We started initially by buying 50kg bags of rice and re-bagging them into 7.5kg. By doing that, we were thinking it was an opportunity to give more people. Because the process is taking long, we decided to go ahead and share the 50kg bags at the first stage and mostly because of the agitation for succour.
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