President approves the establishment of a Six-man Presidential panel on SIP

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January 15, 2024

President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of a 6-man Special
residential Panel on Social Investment Programmes.

The panel to be led by the Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Mr Wale Edun, would undertake a comprehensive review and audit of the existing financial frameworks and policy guidelines of the social investment programmes.

A statement by Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity on Saturday in Abuja, said this followed Tinubu’s six-week suspension of the four programmes under the National Social Investment Programmes Agency (NSIPA).

The programmes are the N-Power Programme, Conditional Cash Transfer Programme, Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme, and Home Grown School Feeding Programme.