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Npower Exit Plan Dead or Alive

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Nexit Plan Dead Or Alive On behalf of the 500,000exited Npower beneficiaries , Batches A&B precisely, hereby register our undiluted gratitude to the APC government for initiating a laudable project such as the Npower program in the year 2016. The essence of this presentation is to draw the attention of concerned stakeholders and the general public to issues bothering on the Npower programme and the transition to the Nexit phase. Before I advance in the course of this presentation, I will like to seize this medium which i tag as golden to be emphatic on the most alluring aspect of the programme, which anchors on the recruitment process. The transparency recorded in the absorption of beneficiaries into the scheme, indicates a paradigm shift from the cultural high wire connection popularly known in pidgin parlance as "man know man" which bedevils the Nigerian civil service and the private sector. Despite the pluses that accompany the scheme, one cannot claim oblivion o

FEC approves N977.7m for N-Power beneficiaries

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FEC approves N977.7m for N-Power beneficiaries FEC approves N977.7m for N-Power beneficiaries, lists areas to be affected Published on April 25, 2019 By Fikayo Olowolagba The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Thursday approved the total of sum of N977.7 million for the N-Creative and N-Tech trainings to empower 3,500 beneficiaries in Northern and Southern Nigeria, respectively. The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Sen. Udo Udoma, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents after the FEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Udoma said the N-Creative and N-Tech trainings were part of the National Social Investment Programme(NSIP). He listed the four thematic areas of the N-Creative training and their respective beneficiary distributions as script writing—150 beneficiaries, graphic illustration—375 beneficiaries, animation-750 beneficiaries and post-production-225 beneficiaries, NAN reports. “We submitted two

N-Power Beneficiaries’ Stipends Increased To N50,000

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N-Power Beneficiaries’ Stipends Increased To N50,000 ? N-Power Beneficiaries’ Stipends Increased? Since President Muhammadu Buhari signed the N30,000 minimum wage bill into law on Thursday, N-Power beneficiaries have been fed with news of their monthly stipend increased from N30, 000 to N50, 000. The President assented to the Act barely three weeks after he received the report of the Presidential Technical Advisory Committee on the Implementation of the National Minimum Wage (PTAC). The report was presented to the President on March 25, 2019, by the chairman of the committee and economist, Bismarck Rewane. The speculation of proposed increment of stipends of the volunteers claims the decision of the Federal Government follows wide consultations by the agencies overseeing youth development. The talk states that N-Power beneficiaries will start to receive N50,000, while members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) will have their N19, 800 upped to N35,000. Concise News took som

Osinbajo Wants CBN, NDIC To Take Over N-Power, Tradermoni, Others

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Osinbajo Wants CBN, NDIC To Take Over N-Power, Tradermoni, Others Contending that present structure of microfinance institutions have failed, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has called on Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation to take over funding and management of N’Power, Trader Moni, Market Moni and other such programmes. Receiving board and management members of NDIC in his office last weekend, Osinbajo said it was desirous for millions of poor Nigerians to be empowered through the extension of credit. According to a statement by Head, Communications and Public Affairs Unit of NDIC, Muhammed Kudu Ibrahim, Osinbajo lamented that the current structure for the operation of Microfinance Banks (MFBs) had failed to achieve the desired goals. He, therefore, called for a sustainable framework to achieve the objectives set by the regulators. While congratulating the Chairman, Mrs Ronke Sokefun and other members of the Board for their appointment, he pr