Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) This would be in tandem with the sickness benefit branch of social security provided by the ILO Convention No. 102, which Nigeria has long ratified. This would be a National HMO to be able to reach out to a greater number of Nigerians using our branch offices nationwide. When approved, it would be deployed in the intervention programme in the underdeveloped areas of Nigeria, using the Niger Delta region as a pilot scheme.
NSITF PLEDGE
The NSITF has 46 years cumulative experience in poverty alleviation schemes and therefore, can provide the platform upon which the government’s poverty alleviation programmes can be anchored.
NSITF is ready and prepared to play its important role as the provider of Social Security to all Nigerian citizens and thereby act as the social Conscience of Government thus fulfilling the lofty social objectives enshrined in Chapter II of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 otherwise christened as “Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy”.
