Buhari to begin payment of N5,000 this month- Lai Mohammed

Minister of information and culture Lai Mohammed has disclosed that the federal government will begin the payment of N5,000 to unemployed individuals this September. Vanguard reports that Mohammed made this announcement on Tuesday, September 20 when a delegation of the National Council for Women’s Societies paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Abuja. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Lai Mohammed says government will start paying the promised N5,000 in September. Mohammed said he was only reiterating the words of finance minister Kemi Adeosun who had earlier announced this. The move, he said was to show that the commitment of the government to improving the well-being and standard of living of the citizens remains unwavering. READ ALSO: Drama in House of Reps as lawmakers move to suspend Jibrin “We are very concerned about the welfare of Nigerians and we are not sleeping; we are working day and night to ensure that the country retraces its step. “Many of our critics have been unfair to us because many of them know that we did not invent the problems we are facing today.

“This is time to join hands together to support the government to move the nation forward,’’ he said.

“The process for the recruitment has started. “About 1.2 million people applied and they classified them into categories including agriculture support officers, teachers, technical officers and so on,’’ he said.