Nigeria: New social security policy aims to establish a welfare state |
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 Four months ago, the Nigerian President Yar'Adua and his government set up a National Working Committee on Social Security Policy for Nigeria. The new policy is very encouraging and aims to establish a welfare state in which the poor, the weak and the unemployed can look forward to a series of measures and actions taken by the government to make their life better. The majority of the population in Africa’s most populous country live in a desperate, poor and underprivileged situation. The new policy should - according to Prince Adetokunbo Kayode - be implemented until the end of the year.
Though the Nigerian social security policy and system is yet to be unveiled, components of the new social security are the several efforts at free primary education, the Universal Basic Education (UBE) and the National poverty Eradication Programmes (NAPEP).
The new program is a step towards achieving article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which says, "everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control."
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