N-Power June Stipend Payment – About 473, 137 beneficiaries of the Federal Government N-Power programme are yet to get paid their June Stipend.
N-Power graduate beneficiaries are paid a monthly stipend of ₦30,000, meaning fourteen billion, one hundred and ninety-four thousand million, one hundred and ten thousand naira (₦14, 194, 110, 000) is being spent as remuneration by the Nigerian government every month.
According to Umar Sadiya Farouq, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, the N-Power programme is aimed at driving skill development and job creation for unemployed youths between the ages of 18 and 35.
Farouq added that no fewer than 473,137 youths have been enrolled into the National Social Investment Programme of the federal government.
“As at February 25, there are 473,137 Nigerians enrolled into the programme,” Farouq had said.
“The N-Power Graduate Programme is the federal government’s direct intervention to tackle youth unemployment and re-energise public service delivery in four key sectors, that is, education, agriculture, health and tax.”
Since the transfer of the National Social Investment Programme (N-SIP) to the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development in October 2019, N-Power beneficiaries’ pay has not been regular, this writer gathered from several volunteers.
Today is the nineth day of the seventh month of the year, yet, beneficiaries have not been settled their June stipend.
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N-Power June Stipend Payment – This online news medium observed that the disengaged beneficiaries are frustrated with the current situation.
This has caused many of them to come on social media (Twitter most especially) to demand their payment as seen below;
When are we expecting our June stipend???
— Henryagori (@Henryagori3) July 8, 2020
Please pay us our June stipends batch A and B
— Sancho ME (@EnyinnayaMicha4) July 8, 2020
Morning, today is 8th and June salary has not been credited, hope the pandemic will not take us before getting our salary credited to our account. Please act
— Tumubility (@tumubility) July 8, 2020
Please when are paying our four months stipends? What have we done to deserve this wickedness?
Right from the onset we had no issues and just of a sudden this year, issue of account being flagged and all that arose. Pay us our monies before exiting us!— Twins Robert (@TwinsRobert) July 6, 2020
No payment for the month of June honorable? Please ma, we beg of you to pay us
— Ezekiel Oladimeji (@EzekielOladime2) July 8, 2020
How can u disengaged beneficiaries without salary? Today is 8 0f July and no news about June payment. Nawa oh
— Deen (@Deen96492271) July 8, 2020
Will you pay our four months unpaid Stipends or till we die?? This is Injustice and inhumane @Sadiya_farouq pls stop all this wickednes and pay our Stipends we are also human beings
— Ambassador jr. (@jr_aambassador) July 6, 2020
Recall that Batch A beneficiaries have been exited last month, but are yet to receive their ₦30,000 monthly stipend.
According to the Nigerian government, a huge part of the N-Power design is the up-skilling of beneficiaries. Thus, they are recruiting 400, 000 fresh beneficiaries.
Beneficiaries ‘gain experience on the job while also learning intangible yet important soft skills in the work environment’, said N-Power scheme.
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