The Chairman, Senate Committee on Power, Steel Development and Metallurgy, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has described the N-Power programme of the APC government under President Buhari as “propaganda”. Abaribe, who doubles as Chairman, South-East caucus in the Senate, also declared that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will return to power in 2019. In a chat with […]
N-Power beneficiaries in Ekiti State have commended President Muhammadu Buhari for engaging many youths in Nigeria into the programme to curtail the rate of youth unemployment in the country. The President of N-Power beneficiaries in Ekiti State, Mr. Darasola Olaiya Oladimeji, gave the commendation in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, during the one year celebration […]
The applicants for the 2017 N-Power, the employment scheme of the Federal Government can now start checking their pre-selection status on the portal, www.npower.gov.ng/n-power/check. The N-Power Volunteer Corps is part of the FG’s Social Investment Programmes, SIP, under which it plans to hire 300,000 unemployed graduates in 2017. After a brief silence, N-Power reopened […]
Following the collaboration of Edo State Government and the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) to kick malaria out of the state, the N-Power Health Volunteers in Utagban Community in Oredo Local Government Area have organised a one-day malaria awareness seminar. The state government has a commitment to primary healthcare and has been collaborating with relevant development […]
The Federal Government is initiating plans to recruit another 300,000 youths in the second batch of its N-Power social intervention and job creation programme. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this in Kwara State. Mr. Mohammed said the Federal Government would “reopen the N-POWER portal in the coming week to […]
Federal government has rebuffed the news making the rounds that it has reopened the N-Power portal for fresh applications. The Federal government’s position was contained in a statement issued by Laolu Akande, the presidential spokesman in the Office of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, and made available to the press. Akande said in the […]
It is an issue of serious concern that in Nigeria so far, economic policies have not translated into commensurate and improved social outcomes, especially for the over 60 million young people who make up majority of the population. Joy Ekeke writes. Africa is regarded as the most ‘youthful’ continent in the world. According to […]
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