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Umar Farouq Flags Off Mobile Money Agents Training in FCT, North Central Zone
A four-day training programme to establish beneficiaries in mobile money transactions has been launched in the federal capital territory and the north-central states.
The training was flagged off on Thursday by the minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development Sadiya Umar Farouq at the international centre for women’s development, Abuja.
The minister said in her keynote address, that the federal government has paid more attention to promoting the plight of the poor and vulnerable in the country which she said informed the decision to initiate the national social investment programme(NSIP) as a strategy for enhancing social inclusion.
Minister Umar Farouq also stated that the mobile money agents’ training programme is designed to empower unemployed youths and develop their competencies to operate as registered mobile money agents.
The programme is expected to provide job opportunities for 1,850 youths selected from the 36 states and the FCT as well as promote financial inclusion, by providing financial services to under-served Nigerians.
The minister later made a symbolic presentation of pos machines, umbrellas, fingerprint scanners, furniture and a twenty thousand naira starting capital to some of the beneficiaries.
Some items, which include pos machines, umbrellas, fingerprint scanners, furniture and cash of twenty thousand nairas, were presented to the beneficiaries by the minister.
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