The is indeed a good news for residents of Lagos States as the state Government on Tuesday, 27 May, 2025 commenced the integration of the National Identification Number of residents into the Lagos State Single Social Register as a subset of the National Social Register to facilitate the Federal Government’s cash transfer to vulnerable residents.
The state Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Ope George, who made this disclosure during a press conference at Alausa Ikeja, on Tuesday, 27 May, 2025, also disclosed that at least 130,000 heads of households had been linked.
According to George, the move was necessitated by the need to tackle the current hardship triggered by the collapse of the forex window, removal of fuel subsidy and the proposed payment of relief grant.
‘’The Federal Government has directed, through the Presidential Panel, that households on the national register must be updated especially with National Identification Number and geo-locations, the commissioner said
He added that the state government has successfully linked the National Identification Number of 130,000 heads of households out of the 688,759 on its social register in preparation for the N75,000 cash transfer by the FG.
George said the state commenced the process on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, across all 57 local government and local council development areas.
“In the space of barely a month, the SPCD with the support of the Community Based Targeting Teams at the local government level, have been able to update over 130,000 heads of households by ensuring the NINs are linked with the LASSR in the 20 LGAs and 37 LCDAs across the state.
‘’Data from the ministry shows that out of the 130,000 heads of households already linked, Ikorodu leads with 16, 418 followed by Alimosho with 14,964 and Mushin coming third with 10,712.’’
According to him, the state government has successfully linked the National Identification Number of 130,000 heads of households out of the 688,759 on its social register in preparation for the N75,000 cash transfer by the FG.
He said the state commenced the process on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, across all 57 local government and local council development areas.
“In the space of barely a month, the SPCD with the support of the Community Based Targeting Teams at the local government level, have been able to update over 130,000 heads of households by ensuring the NINs are linked with the LASSR in the 20 LGAs and 37 LCDAs across the state.
‘’Data from the ministry shows that out of the 130,000 heads of households already linked, Ikorodu leads with 16, 418 followed by Alimosho with 14,964 and Mushin coming third with 10,712,”the commissioner said.
