Over 4 million households benefit from FG’s cash transfer, lowest in southeast – Report 

A new report by the World Bank says that up to 4.41 million Nigerian households have benefited from the conditional cash transfer with households from the Southeast being the least beneficiaries at less than four hundred thousand of the total figure.

The World Bank’s Nigeria Development Update reports that households in the Northwest have the highest number of beneficiaries at 1.2 million of the total 4.41 million.

This was followed by the Northcentral with around 900,000 beneficiaries while around 800,000 beneficiaries from the Northwest have been recorded.

In the Southern part of the country, the Southwest had the highest number of beneficiaries at over 700,000 followed by the South-South at 400,000. The Southeast recorded less than 400,000 beneficiaries of the federal government’s cash transfer program which was the least nationwide.

The World Bank noted that while over 4.4 million households have received the first tranche of payment, only 800,000 households have received the…