The Federal Government has outlined plans to support up to one point seven million Nigerians who are most vulnerable to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
These include the protection of up to three thousand jobs in one hundred thousand vulnerable Medium and Small Scale Enterprises.
The targeted MSMEs are forty-five percent businesses owned by women, and five percent businesses for special needs.
The plan also includes the registration of two hundred and fifty thousand new businesses at a discounted rate of six thousand naira.
Some three hundred thousand transport workers and artisan would also be supported with a one-off grant.
Nigeria’s Vice President, YEMI OSINBAJO outlined the government plan in an address he presented on behalf of President MUHAMMADU BUHARI during a ministerial retreat in Abuja.
Professor OSINBAJO said thirty-three thousand Nigerians would benefit from the government package in each of the thirty-six states of the federation.