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The National Economic Council (NEC) has directed that states should develop a comprehensive social register for vulnerable people, the target beneficiaries of the government’s cash transfer programme.
Governor Charles Soludo disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the NEC meeting chaired by Vice-President Kashim Shettima, on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Mr Soludo said NEC resolved that the states should develop their own registers, using formal and informal means.
He said that all beneficiaries at the sub national level could easily be identified that way.
Mr Soludo affirmed that NEC also discussed ways to cushion the impact of the recent petroleum subsidy removal.
