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.

Olatomiwa Williams     Ilorin.Info     Okin Malt     Abdulraufu Mustapha     Oniwasi Agbaye     Imam Gambari     Afetu Of Alabe     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Salman Jawondo     Abdulquawiy Olododo     Abdullahi Biffo     Kunbi Titiloye     Magaji Erubu     Abdulrazaq Sanni     Moshood Kashimawo Abiola     Rebecca Bake     Yomi Adeboye     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     Kehinde Baale     Abdulkadri Ahmad Alaiye     Kayode Oyin Zubair     Yahaya Abdulkareem     Alao Ayotunde     Yakubu Danladi     Waheed Ibrahim     RTEAN     Okoolowo     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Ajikobi     KWASSIP     Saliu Oluwole     Aremu Bose Deborah     Jimoh Akani     Daud Adeshola     Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     V.O. Abioye     COVID-19 Palliatives     Ballah     Yunus Lawal     Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Lithium     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Muslim Cementary     Ilorin West     Adedipe     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Ilorin Like-Minds     Bankole Omishore     AbdulGafar Tosho     Funmilayo Mohammed     Kwara State Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Michael Nzwekwe     Orisa Bridge     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Bolakale Ayo     Baboko Primary School     Sabo-Oke     Taofeeq Olateju     Aliyu Sabi     Elekoyangan     Ilorin Durbar     KSIRS     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Isaac Aderemi Kolawole     Lanwa     Oluranti Idowu     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Ola Falade     Kwara State Polytechnic     Yekeen Alabi     IYA YUSUF     MAI Akande     Babatunde Ishola Babaita     Abdullateef Abdussalam     ANCOPPS     Ganmo Power Sub-Station    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Timothy Akangbe     Tunji Ajanaku     Federal Allocation     Michael Nzekwe     Ilorin General Hospital     Gamji Members Association     Moro     Makama     V.O. Abioye     Abubakar Ndakene     Kwara     Yoruba     Kwara Poly     Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede     John Olobayo     Kola Olota     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak     Owu Fall     Shonga     Twitter     Nigeria Customs Service     Mohammed Danjuma     Magaji Are     Saadu Gbogbo Iwe     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Tanke Road     Onilorin     Ladi Hassan     Abdulmumini AbdulRazaq     Kwara Restoration Project     Osinbajo     Aishatu Ahmed Gobir     Popo-Igbonna     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     Adesoye     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Jelili Yusuf     Oke-opin     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     SUBEB     Abdulquawiy Olododo     Sulu Babaita Isiaka     TIC     Oke-Kura     Abdulfatah Ahmed     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     20 Billion Bond     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Universal Basic Education Commission     Laolu Saraki     Kwara 2015     Abdulmumini Jawondo     Adeniyi Ojo     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     Obuh     Amosa     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Omu Aran     Segun Adeniyi     Tuesday Assayomo     Chief Imam Of Ilorin     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Tinubu     Kayode Laro     Haliru Yahaya     Arandun     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Kwara 2023     UITH     Emir Of Kano     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Hassan Oyeleke     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Olushola Saraki