Leadership (Abuja)
Aminu Imam
25 August 2008
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has said that provision of Social Security Benefits in Nigeria is a long-term panacea for mass poverty, unemployment and an important tool for the realisation of an egalitarian society.
Deputy Governor, Economic Policy of the CBN, Mrs. Sarah Alade, made this known during a courtesy call on her by the Managing Director, Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Dr. Enukora Joe Okoli.
Mrs. Alade therefore advised the NSITF to intensify efforts towards the actualisation of constitutional provision on social security as contained in Section 71(2) of the Pension Reform Act, 2004 and the public mandate it had received at its last stakeholders conference on social security.
Mrs. Alade advised the NSITF Management to explore ways of benefiting from the apex bank's Entrepreneurship Development Centres for Micro-finance Banks to further enhance the Fund's proposed Micro-finance scheme for the physically challenged.
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`trully its time for our noble law makers to arise and fulfill their destiny, which is the emancipation of the common nigerian, every nigerian is born to be a king and a queen, and the constitution has said that, so the law maker should implement that aspect of the law, they can do it, they care about nigeria their father land and they will help the common man LETS NOT GET DISCOURAGED.