YESSO: Cross River Team Commends Kwara E-Payment Initiative

Date: 2018-03-14

The Kwara State Government has been commended for adopting an e-payment platform for the payment of stipends to beneficiaries of the World Bank-assisted Youth Employment and Social Support Operation-Pubic Workfare scheme in the State.

Chris Anake, Head, Monitoring and Evaluation, Operation Coordinating Unit of YESSO in Cross River State, gave the commendation on Tuesday during the distribution of Automated Teller Machine cards to 1,210 beneficiaries of the scheme in Kwara State to mark the commencement of payment of stipends to the beneficiaries.

Anake said his team was in Kwara State as an independent monitoring group to observe the progress of the Public Workfare scheme in the State and make submissions appropriately.

He disclosed that Kwara State is the first to introduce the e-payment platform among the 20 states implementing the YESSO-PWF scheme, adding that the e-payment platform will promote transparency and accountability.

Earlier in his address, the Permanent Secretary, Kwara State Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Alhaji Amosa Isiaka Al-amin, urged beneficiaries from the six pilot local government areas of the State to take full advantage of the scheme and ensure judicious use of their monthly stipend.

Al-amin also charged them to be committed in the discharge of the duties assigned to them.

The Permanent Secretary disclosed that over 4000 youths across the remaining 10 local government areas of the state would be engaged in the coming months as the State Government will soon make the counterpart fund available.

Also In his address, the Head of the State Public Workfare Unit, S.O. Aregbe, assured the beneficiaries that the stipend would be paid as and when due. Aregbe said the PWF component of the YESSO programme, which is targeted at providing immediate labour intensive work opportunities for unskilled youths from poor households, will improve their living standard.

In separate interviews, two of the beneficiaries, Quadri Abdulraman and Mariam Ayo, appreciated the State Government for the initiative and solicited for an extension of the scheme beyond two years.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Saad Belgore     Principal Private Secretary     Bashiru Makama     Joseph Bamigboye     Binta Abubakar-Mora     Afonja     Shoprite     Prince Sunday Fagbemi     08001000100     Mohammed Kamaludeen     Babaita     Habeeb Saidu     Lanre Issa Onilu     Abdullahi Samari     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Bureau Of Lands     Bayo Ajia     Lanre Issa-Onilu     Salihu S. Yaru     Femi Agbaje     Surajudeen Akanbi     Isiaka Danmeromu     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Ibrahim Oniye     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     Kamaldeen Gambari     Kanu Agabi     Rasheed Jimoh     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Kayode Yusuf     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Kudirat Arinola Lawal     Muritala Olarewaju     Shuaib Olarongbe     Abikan     Kwara State Sports Commission     Kubra Kazum     Alaiye     PPS     Aso Ofi     Lukman Adeloyin     Shehu Alimi Foundation     Nagode     Umar Adelodun     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Diagnostic Centre     Kwara State Governor     Chartered Institute Of Personnel Management Of Nigeria     Offa Metropolitan Club     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq     Abdulrahman Onikijipa     Bukola Saraki     Kwara Consultative Forum     Magaji Nda     Olusola Saraki     Risikat Lawal     Sarkin Malamai     Usman Yunusa     Sidikat Alaya     Mike Omotosho     Special Adviser On Digital Innovation     Tunji Olawuyi     Sanitation Exercise     ITP     Convocation Ceremonies     Ahmad Uthman     KWACOBPA     Edu     PharmAccess Foundation     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Tunde Oyawoye     Aliyu Umar     Salihu Ajibola Ajia     Folashade Omoniyi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Hameed Oladipupo Ali     Iponrin     Abdulquawiy Olododo     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Olomu     Bamidele Aluko     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Abdulrosheed Okiki     Vasolar     Amusa Bello     Ayekale     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     UTME     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     Salman Jawondo     Saka Isau     Victor Gbenga Yusuf     Simeon Sayomi     2023 Elections     Road Transport Employers Association Of Nigeria     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     Saadu Yusuf     Split Diamond Interchange     Coronavirus     Olatinwo     Sunday Fagbemi     Shettima     IESA     Adeleke Ogungbe     Abatemi Usman     Wasiu Onidugbe     Segun Adeniyi     Admiralty Villa     Wahab Isa     Jumoke Gafar     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     AbdulRahman Saad     ASMAU PLAZA     Ekiti     Khairat Gwadabe     Zulu Gambari     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Busari Toyin Isiaka     Eruku     Code Of Conduct Bureau     Council Of The Wise     Alikinla     CLAY POT     Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     Maryam A. Garuba     Oju Ekun Sarumi     Onilu     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Adaramaja     Iyeru Grammar School     Shaykh Luqman Jimoh     Smart School     Tanke     IYA ALFA NLA     United Nigeria Congress Party     Afeyin-Olukuta     Busari Alabi Alausa     Erubu     Galadima     Amos Justus Sayo     Sabitiyu Grillo     ITEM 7     SAPZ Project     Orisun Igbomina     Javed Khan     Taofeek Ibraheem     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Nigerian Army     3MTT     CCT     Tunde Saad     RTEAN