Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has reiterated the administration’s commitment to continue the sketchy and non-transparent conditional cash transfer policy of his predecessor. This time, the government will be providing 15 million households with N25,000 over three months. The overall policy is a combination of the CCT and business grants via the National Social Safety Net Expansion Programme. However, critics maintain that there is no evidence that the government has a database of the most vulnerable 15 million households in Nigeria. It thus means that the exercise is inherently discriminatory since some of the most vulnerable will miss out. Also, any form of cash transfer is rooted and riddled with corruption. The CCT was first introduced in 2016 under the social intervention scheme to reduce poverty in Nigeria, but the Nigeria Labour Congress and others have often queried the integrity of the data and process.
