The Managing Director, Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Maureen Allagoa, has said that the agency is strategically positioned to lead the actualisation of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Eight-Point Agenda on health, education, social investment and agriculture.

Allagoa, who spoke at a workshop on the Role of the NSITF and the Delivery Task Team in Actualising the Government Eight Priority Areas under the Ministry of Labour and Employment yesterday in Abuja, revealed that the fund has launched an initiative to improve the lives of Nigerians through an enhanced human and capital development.

She said: “The NSITF as the leading social security institution in Africa with over 60 years’ experience in the social security sector has a huge role and responsibility in the actualisation of these key priority areas, particularly key priority area Number 6 that speaks to social investments to improve the lives of Nigerians and enhance human and capital development.

“We have commenced a strategic drive into the informal sector of the economy with a view to providing social security services for the employees through close collaboration with Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) using their various associations and bodies.

“This strategy extends even to associations and umbrella bodies of small and medium scale enterprises in the agricultural sector with a view to improving productivity and boosting food production which will invariably enhance food security. “This aligns with key priority area Number 3, which seeks to boost agriculture and achieve food security.”