The Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Mariam Katagum, says that a total of 155,920 beneficiaries in the transport track of the Federal Government’s Survival Fund have been approved for payment since the enumeration of the first set of beneficiaries on January 17, 2021.
According to a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, the minister disclosed this at two separate virtual interactive sessions Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo had with the beneficiaries.
According to the statement, the minister noted that the education sector alone had about 850,000 applications during the one week the survival portal was reopened, compared to about half of the number when the portal was first opened for six weeks.
She was further quoted as saying that so far, 43 per cent of the Survival Fund beneficiaries were females.
