No fewer than 20,000 persons are about to take off
in hardware, innovation and software training as part of the programmes under
the Federal Government’s N-power scheme.
This was made known by the Senior
Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the Vice President, Mr. Laolu Akande.
According to Akande, about 200,000 volunteers have been recruited nationwide for the N-power scheme so far while another set of 300,000 graduate volunteers have been pre-selected for the next round.
According to Akande, about 200,000 volunteers have been recruited nationwide for the N-power scheme so far while another set of 300,000 graduate volunteers have been pre-selected for the next round.
“When fully engaged, half a million unemployed
graduates would have been engaged receiving their N30,000 monthly stipend and
equipped with an electronic device that prepares them with new skills and ideas
beyond the duration of the N-Power,” Akande said.
“In addition, the cost-benefit analysis of the
programme indicates that a careful implementation of the programmes would
deliver a positive return to the country’s GDP both in the short and long
terms,’’ he added.
N-power scheme is a programme under the Federal
Government’s National Social Investments Programmes (NSIP) which was initiated
in 2016 and designed to assist young Nigerians between the ages of 18 to 35 to
acquire and develop life-long skills.
So far, no fewer than 6.8 million Nigerians out of
the projected 10 million have benefited from the National Social Investment
Programmes being implemented by the Buhari administration.
Other programmes under the initiative include, the
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT), Government Enterprise
and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) and Home Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSF).
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