N-Power is a scheme set up by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2016.
N-Power is a scheme set up by President Muhammadu Buhari on June 8, 2016, to address the issues of youth unemployment and help increase social development.
The scheme was created as a component of National Social Investment Programme, to provide a structure for large scale and relevant work skills acquisition and development and to ensure that each participant will learn and practice most of what is necessary to find or create work.
The House of Representatives has moved to provide a legislative framework for the famed N-Power scheme, as well as other projects of the Muhammadu Buhari administration under the National Social Investment Programmes (NSIPs).
The bill, sponsored by Femi Gbajabiamila, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and 11 others, seeks to establish the NSIP for the poor and the endangered. Read more here.
Amid unpaid stipends from 2020 and the non-implementation of the NEXIT plan, Kabiru Pelemi, the National N-Power President says “in an unjust society, silence is a crime”.
The famous quote is linked to a former Nigerian Senator, Dino Melaye. Read more here.
The 36 States and FCT N-Power Representatives Forum on Tuesday accused the Nigerian Federal Government of ‘tactically excluding the option of unemployed status from the NEXIT survey’.
NEXIT is a portal designed for the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) empowerment programme for exited N-Power beneficiaries (batches A and B). It was launched in November 2020, but has not been effected despite hundreds of the erstwhile beneficiaries successfully completing registration. The next stage of the NEXIT has not been announced either - since 2020. Read more here.
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