The South East ranked least in the list of Vulnerable Nigerians as the Federal Government Friday, published full list of 11 million “poor and vulnerable” Nigerians
From records published by the National Social Safety Nets Coordinating office, NASSCO, total of 2.6 million households benefited from the programme.
The South-East has the lowest number of vulnerable Nigerians with 383,316 among all the regions.
Zamfara State has the highest number with 1.34million people across 290,000 households.
Sokoto State is the least with 18,435 across 3,347 households.
NASSCO, however, did not include Ebonyi and Ogun States on the list, because the states are still in the process of building their social register.
The agency said the register for poor and vulnerable Nigerians is built through a “rigorous, transparent community based targeting process undertaken by states and validated by NASSCO.”
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