The federal government has selected 500,000 persons for the N-Power Batch C1 programme.
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq gave this disclosure yesterday while giving update on the National Social Investment Management System (NASIMS).
She said by third week of last month, over 1.8 million Nigerians successfully updated their records and took the compulsory online test.
According to the minister, the second batch of another 500,000 will subsequently be made in line with the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to engage 1,000,000 beneficiaries under the Batch C.
She added that the 550,000 short-listed applicants were being individually contacted via their e-mail addresses provided and were advised to check and then immediately log on to the NASIMS self-service portal and enrol their biometric data to qualify for final selection.
The Federal Government through its National Social Investment Management System has shortlisted 550,000 applicants for the final selection for Batch C of the N-Power programme. It also said that the Central Bank of Nigeria would support Batches A and B beneficiaries who had completed the N-Power programme with soft loans. The.The Advocate
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IN 2015, the Federal Government introduced the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) as a deliberate effort to pull many Nigerians out of poverty through capacity building, investment and direct support. N-Power is a component of the NSIP and all other components of it have come under supervision of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development to help tackle unemployment and alleviate poverty in the country, with the focus on the youth population. The programme was grouped into four major clusters: Job Creation, Conditional Cash Transfer, School Feeding and Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP). As an employability enhancement programme, the N-Power Scheme imbibes the learn-work-entrepreneurship culture in youth between the ages of 18-35. It focuses on improving the employability and income status of young Nigerians across all the states in the country.