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N-Power: ‘Pay Us Before Hunger Turns Us To Coronavirus’ – Beneficiaries Tell Nigerian Minister (Throwback)

N-Power: ‘Pay Us Before Hunger Turns Us To Coronavirus’

It's Thursday, and AllNews travels back in time to February 2020 when beneficiaries of the Nigerian government’s N-Power initiative fumed as regards their unpaid January 2020 stipend.

As of the 19th day of the second month of 2020, around 500, 000 Nigerian youths under the famed scheme were owed January stipend of N30, 000, without explanation from any official quarter.

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At the time, Sadiya Farouq, the country’s Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development was mute on the matter.

Interestingly, unpaid stipends are still a thing of concern for N-Power batches A and B beneficiaries to date.

There are still owed stipends for the months of March 2020 to July 2020.

The exited beneficiaries earned N30, 000 (approximately 73 US Dollars) per month.

The National Social Investment Programmes NSIP (an initiative the N-Power scheme is one of its elements), which was formerly under the office of the vice-president, Prof. Osinbajo and managed by Hajia Maryam Uwais, special adviser to the president on social intervention, was moved to the ministry of humanitarian affairs, disaster management, and social development on October 1, 2019.

The N-Power scheme had sub-components as N-Teach, N-Agro, N-Health and N-Health.

AllNews reports that Farouq is one of the Nigerian politicians who have gone against the grain on issues of national importance in 2020 and allegedly contributed to the suffering of the larger public.

N-Power is not the only reason Farouq receives jibes from the Nigerian people.

During the early stage of the coronavirus pandemic, Farouq was heavily criticised by Nigerians who didn’t believe her claim that she distributed palliatives to all states of the country.

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