N-Power: Beneficiaries' Exit Plan Will Soon Be Out, Minister Declares

The Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Sadiya Umar Farouq has announced that exit plan for some N-Power beneficiaries will be out "soon", Allnews.ng reports.

Farouq had repeatedly said that the 2016 volunteers will be exited from the famed programme.

She reiterated that stance on Monday when she met with some honourable members of Nigeria's Green Chamber.

“There is supposed to be an exit plan for N-Power graduates because the arrangement was that they will exit after two years and we have exceeded the time they were supposed to have exited," she explained to the House of Representatives Committee on Poverty Alleviation led by its Chairman, Abdullahi Salame, during an oversight visit to the ministry on Monday.

“So, now we are looking at different options of exit for them and we are working with the Ministry of Finance and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to see how we can exit them and support them to go into different skills they want.

"The exit plan will soon be out.”

The N-Power was introduced in 2016 with the aim of reducing unemployment among Nigerian graduates and non-graduates between the ages of 18 and 35.

The volunteers are paid N30,000 (approximately 83 US Dollars) monthly as stipends and given tablet computers to aid further learning.

On February 25, Farouq had said a total of 473,137 beneficiaries were registered in the scheme.