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October 17, 2019
Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari onSocial Investment, Maryam Uwais, says the National Social Investment OfficeNSIO, will continue to be guided by the provisions of the  Fiscal Responsibility Act, in itsexpenditures.
Uwais spoke when she led the management team of theNational Social Investment Programme N-SIP, to brief the Minister of HumanitarianAffairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, on theoutfit’s activities.
She briefed the minister on the structure, financialstanding, level of implementation of the various components, and challenges ofthe Social Intervention Programmes of the Buhari Administration.
She added that her office intended to continue toexplore how the monthly releases they get could cover essential needs, because“there are many things we have not been able to do”.
Maryam, however, said that in spite of theshortfalls in budgetary releases to the NSIO, the National Social InvestmentProgramme had made a significant difference in the lives of millions of poorand vulnerable Nigerians.