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Senate: FG to pay N81bn backlog owed N-Power beneficiaries

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Deputy Senate President Jibrin Barau has assured Nigerians that the federal government will pay the outstanding N81 billion allowances owed to N-Power beneficiaries from 2022 and 2023. Barau said the assurance followed the intervention of the Senate, which facilitated talks between the federal

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N-Power: 550,000 applicants qualify for final selection

Ihesiulo Grace 8 June 2021 0

The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development says no fewer than 550,000 out of the 1.8 million Batch C applicants have been selected for the final stage of N-Power. Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, the Minister, Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development made this known at a press briefing on Tuesday in […]

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N-Power: We’ll select Batch C transparently – Minister

Ihesiulo Grace 3 September 2020 0

Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia Sadiya Farouq assured Nigerians that the selection process in the N-Power Batch C will be transparent. Farouq said this at the interactive forum with state focal persons for the Social Investment Programmes held in Abuja, on Thursday, September 5. She said approval had seen been […]

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N-Power: We will absorb exited beneficiaries into MDAs – FG

Ihesiulo Grace 28 August 2020 0

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, says plans are in the works towards absorbing excited and eligible N-power beneficiaries into government programs, DAILY TIMES gathered. The minister, in a statement on Thursday by her spokesperson, Nneka Anibeze, requested that the ex-beneficiaries of the social scheme

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N-Power: FG stops payment to beneficiaries receiving from other platforms

Ihesiulo Grace 28 August 2020 0

The Federal Government has said that any N-Power beneficiary receiving payment from other government payment platforms would be rejected by the Government Integrated Financial Management System. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, said this on Thursday, August 27 while approving outstanding payments to

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Bauchi speaker dismisses claims of N-power slots allocation

Ihesiulo Grace 28 June 2020 0

Speaker of the Bauchi state House of Assembly, Suleiman Abubakar has debunked a report that he was given some slots for the N-power programme of the federal government. A press statement issued by the spokesperson of the speaker, Abdul Burra on Sunday said, the report published by an online newspaper, Sahara Reporters had claimed that […]

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Senate President refutes media report on alleged N-Power job slots

Ihesiulo Grace 27 June 2020 0

Abuja – The Office of the Senate President, has denied media reports that the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, had allocated N-Power recruitment slots to the Senate President and other lawmakers. Mr Ola Awoniyi, Special Adviser (Media), to President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, made the denial in a statement, in Abuja on […]

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N-Power: No plan to absorb beneficiaries into Civil Service, says FG

Ihesiulo Grace 7 June 2020 0

Abuja – Hajiya Sadiya Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, says the Federal Government has no plan at the moment to absorb beneficiaries of the N-Power Programme into the Federal Civil Service Farouq, in a statement by the Deputy Director in the Ministry, Mrs Rhoda Ilaya, on Saturday, said that Nigerians […]

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N-Power beneficiaries to be paid stipends next week, says minister

Ihesiulo Grace 16 May 2020 0

Sadiya Umar Farouq, minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, says the stipends of N-Power beneficiaries for the month of April will be paid early next week. She made the promise at briefing of the presidential task force (PTF) on COVID-19 in Abuja on Friday. READ ALSO: Ecobank building entrepreneurs, supporting financial inclusion […]

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N-Power: Presidential aide says exit plans for beneficiaries on course

Ihesiulo Grace 3 December 2019 0

Mrs. Maryam Uwais, Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Investment, says the National Social Investment Office has an exit plan for N-Power beneficiaries. Uwais told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Monday in Abuja that the plans were worked out ”long beforethe progamme was moved to the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster […]

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FG to lift 2.5m low-income earners through micro-lending scheme

Ihesiulo Grace 20 August 2019 0

The Federal Government has said it will provide micro-lending to about 2.5 million small trades and businesses to the lowest income earners through the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) This was disclosed by the Vice- President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, who was represented by the Special Adviser (SA) to the President on Economic Matters, Dipolu […]

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N-POWER beneficiaries pledge support for Buhari/Bindo

Ihesiulo Grace 17 November 2018 0

The beneficiaries of N-POWER programme of Federal Government in Adamawa state have pledged their support for President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Muhammadu Umaru Jibrilla Bindo of the State. The beneficiaries who are mostly youths of various LGAs in the State reiterated their staunch loyalty for the Jibrilla who they consider a progressive Governor doing what […]

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FG targets 1m beneficiaries of N-Power programme

Ihesiulo Grace 14 November 2018 0

…To become Africa’s largest post -tertiary job scheme Due to the growing need for government’s direct intervention in job creation, the Federal Government has said it will expand the N-Power scheme to accommodate 1 million beneficiaries in the next phase. The creation of N-Power programme, which was borne out of the government’s committed to creating […]

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Taraba govt commends Buhari over N-power programme

Ihesiulo Grace 2 November 2018 0

The President Muhammadu Buhari’s led federal government has been called upon to give permanent appointments to the trainers of the Federal Government N-power programmes across the Country. The Taraba State Commissioner of Education, Mr. Johanes Jigem who commended the federal government for initiating the programme, stated this in Jalingo during a train the

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N-Power Programme‘ll train 10m graduates by 2023 – Osinbajo

Ihesiulo Grace 15 October 2018 0

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that the N-Power Programme introduced by the Federal Government is targeted at training 10 million Nigerian graduates by 2023. Osinbajo revealed that the N-Power Programme has so far provided jobs for 500,000 young Nigerian graduates in the last two years. The Vice President made the disclosure while delivering a […]

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#NoToCodeine campaign: Edo N-power counsels 322 pupils on dangers of drug abuse

Ihesiulo Grace 15 October 2018 0

To deepen the #Notocodeine campaign in Edo North Senatorial District of the state, beneficiaries of Federal Government’s Social Investment Programme, N-Power, in Edo State, have tasked secondary school students to shun drug abuse and strive for excellence in their studies so as to meaningfully contribute to national development. The N-Power beneficiaries gave the

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FG recruits 500,000 graduates under N-power programme – VP

Ihesiulo Grace 14 September 2018 0

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday said 500,000 graduates had so far been recruited under the Federal Government’s N-power programme. Osinbajo disclosed this at a conference tagged: “Harnessing Demographic Dividend (DD) for Sustainable Development in Nigeria: The Role of Religious Leaders’’, organised by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Abuja. He

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FG adds 9,400 beneficiaries to N-power scheme

Ihesiulo Grace 7 June 2018 0

The Federal Government has added another 9,400 beneficiaries to the N-power scheme under the Social Investment Programme, SIP. Addressing State House correspondents after the FEC meeting yesterday, Zaynab Ahmed, the Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, said the SIP had up to 9.76 million beneficiaries at the moment. The minister said the N-power […]

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Osinbajo, PDP in war-of-words over missing funds

Ihesiulo Grace 7 May 2018 0

…Osinbajo should account for missing NNPC N19trn, N18bn NEMA – PDP …Osinbajo: The difference between us and past govt is that we are not thieves The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused Vice President Yemi Osinbajo of complicity in a large scale sleaze in the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. The PDP also accused Osinbajo of allowing […]

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N-power to re-open website for application

Ihesiulo Grace 13 February 2018 0

N-Power, Federal Government empowerment scheme, has denied reports that its website is now open for application. The scheme made the denial while urging Nigerians to follow its official “channels for authentic news.” In a tweet, the scheme also said it’s yet to announce the final beneficiaries of its verified 2017 pre-selection exercise. The statement reads: […]