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.

Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Fatai Garuba Labaka     IF-K     Idiagbon     Obuh     Kolo     Abiodun Abdulkareem     Ghali Alaaya     KSIRS     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     Muideen Olaniyi Alalade     Amada Jidda     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Simeon Sayomi     Abatemi Usman     Bello Bature     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Bayo Lawal     AGF Abdulrazaq     AGILE Programme     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Aisha Gobir     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     New Nigeria People’s Party     Daud Adeshola     Mustapha Olanipekun     Funmilayo Mohammed     Durosinlohun Atiku     Danladi     Sabi     Abdulmumini Jawondo     Oniwa     Laduba     Ilorin     Salihu S. Yaru     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Saka Asiat Ayinke     Kishira     Nnazua     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Shehu Alimi Foundation     Kwara Metro Park     Moshood Kashimawo Abiola     Okeose Christian Cementary     Saka Abimbola Isau     Ahmad Lawan     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Emir Of Yashikira     Abdul-Rasheed Na\'Allah     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Ekiti     Islamiya Abdulraheem     Veterinary Teaching Hospital     Saliu Ajia     Iyabo Adisa Ibiyeye     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Ilorin General Hospital     Saliu Oluwole     Yomi Ogunsola     Mustapha AbdulGaniyu     EFCC     Amuda Musbau     Asa     Issa Oloruntogun     Sulu Babaita Isiaka     Ojuekun     Bilikis Oladimeji     Yusuf A. Usman     Tsaragi/Share     Kwasu     Michael Ologundea     Ilorin Emirate Stakeholders Forum     University Road     Salaudeen Oyewale     Olofa Of Offa     Press Release     Hameed Oladipupo Ali    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Magaji Are     Bank Of Industry     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Ariyo     Fola Consultant     CCEPE     Mohammed Lawal Bagega     Durbar     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Sun Qing Rong     Hameed Oladipupo Ali     Clara Nwachukwu     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     Mutawali Of Ilorin     KWASSIP     Harmony Holdings     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Valsolar Consultoria     Sunset Workers     Afonja Descendants Union     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     Christopher Ayeni     Elerinjare     Paul Olawoore     Monkey Pox     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Doyin Group     Moro     Saka Balikis Kehinde     GRA     Solomon Edojah     Bayer AG     Taofik Abiodun Ahmed     Wahab Issa     Buhari     Jare Olatundun     Elerin Of Erin-Ile     Kola Shittu     Mohammed Kamaludeen     Lola Olabayo     Emmanuel Bello     Elerinjare-Ibobo     Charcoal     Sobi Hill     Women For Change And Development Initiative     NTA Ilorin     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Tunde Idiagbon Road     V.O. Abioye     Allocation     International Vocational Centre     Rebecca Bake     Chief Imam Of Ilorin     Sabi     Folashade Omoniyi     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     T And K FOODS     Ilorin General Hospital     Jimoh Akani     Offa Metropolitan Club     Dauda Adeniran Adeshola     Saeedat Aliyu     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Marafan Shonga     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     S.O. Opowoye     Kannike     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     JSSCE     Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     Goodluck Jonathan     Admiralty Villa     Samuel Adedoyin     Kwara Basketball Association     Muritala Awodun     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf