Shettima calls for Universal Child Benefit to tackle poverty in Nigeria

The Vice President of Nigeria, Kashim Shettima, has called for the instauration of a Universal Child Benefit arsenic portion of efforts to tackle multidimensional poorness crossed the country, particularly successful the North-West region.

He made the telephone on Wednesday at the High-Level North-West Policy Dialogue held successful Kano State, wherever helium was represented by the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau Jibrin.

According to him, poorness is nary longer conscionable astir deficiency of income, but astir deprivation successful education, health, nutrition, and opportunities for children and families.

“The kid is the astir honorable measurement of immoderate society. When a kid is hungry, the aboriginal is hungry. When a kid is retired of school, the federation is retired of position; erstwhile a kid is denied healthcare, the system pays successful weakened quality capital,” helium said.

He warned that implicit 8 cardinal children successful Nigeria are inactive retired of school, adding that the concern continues to endanger the country’s quality superior development.

The Vice President said the projected Universal Child Benefit would supply predictable fiscal enactment to families with children, helping to amended schoolhouse enrolment, nutrition, and kid welfare.

He noted that the argumentation would besides trim pressures that propulsion children into labour, aboriginal marriage, and semipermanent poverty.

He besides called for a reliable societal register, transpar...