FACT CHECK: How True Is Sadiya Farouq's Claim That 109,823 N-Power Beneficiaries Are Now Business Owners?

In a Press Release last Saturday in Abuja by her Special Assistant on Strategic Communication, Halima Oyelade, the Nigerian Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, said no fewer than 109,823 beneficiaries of the N-Power Programme are now business owners, AllNews noted.

"Out of the 500,000 beneficiaries enrolled in Batch A and B (outgoing), about 109,823 have proceeded to establish businesses in their communities underlining the impact and imperative of the N-Power programme.

“Statistics like this gives me joy," Farouq revels.

AllNews fact-checks this claim.

The assertion by the Minister is not 100% reliable as she only gave a figure without proper attribution.

Laying claim to an affair concerning over 20% of the cardinal Nigerian youths requires that Hajia Farouq provides irrefutable data.

AllNews observed that several beneficiaries on social media query the statistics, with a couple of commenters labelling it false. They are 'rightly' asking: 'On what parameter?'; 'On what basis?', 'How did you arrive at that figure?'.

There is no evidence for big hundreds of business ownership claim by the Nigerian government official as it looks more or less like the figure was concocted.

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Most recent data does not support Farouq’s claims about N-Power’s success. Thus, her claim cannot be proven.

AllNews checked the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), and there was no information to show 109,823 N-Power beneficiaries are now business owners.