N-power Stipend Payment Update 2024 –  Check the article below for latest updates about the Non payment of stipends of the N-power beneficiaries by the Federal Government of Nigeria.

About N-power

The N-Power scheme was set up by the former President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari on 8 June 2016. Mainly to address the issues of youth unemployment and help increase social development. The scheme was created as a component of the National Social Investment Program. To provide a structure for large-scale and relevant work skills acquisition and development. And also to ensure that each participant will learn and practice most of what is necessary to find or create work. The scheme was created for unemployed graduates and non-graduates between the ages of 18 and 35.

It was a paid programme of a two-year duration, aimed at engaging beneficiaries in their states of residence. The scheme currently has six categories namely; N-Teach, N-Health, N-Agro, N-Build, N-Creative and N-Tech. In 2021, the Federal Government introduced another Npower category known as N-knowledge and, it is targeted at Nigerian youths. The aim is to help youths learn computer hardware skills that are profitable and employable. Npower has been able to successfully train 1,500 Youths and also gave them tools such as Laptops to each beneficiary.

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Nigeria’s N-Power Beneficiaries Announce 5-Day Nationwide Protests

N-Power beneficiaries across the country have announced that they will hold protests in all the states and the FCT. This protest is due to the non-payment of their one-year stipends by the Nigerian government. The beneficiaries led by Adeshina Adex, lamented that they were not paid their stipends between October 2022 and September 2023.

They noted that though the programme has been suspended by the Nigerian government, they were engaged and their services were utilised before the suspension of the programme.

“Despite repeated attempts to address this issue with the federal government of Nigeria, our pleas have been met with silence and inaction. “It is with this great disappointment that we are announcing our decision because our demands are not met yet”. They said in a statement signed by their National President, Muhammad Habibu Abubakar and Publicity Secretary, Jamilu Zakar Gumel.

The protests will be held nationwide from Monday, December 2, 2024 to Friday, December 6, 2024. Starting from the National Assembly to the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction and the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) office. A human rights lawyer, Barrister Deji Adeyanju, had petitioned the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Prof. Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, over the non-payment one-year stipends to N-Power beneficiaries by the government.

The beneficiaries Stated that they registered for the N-Power programme and got deployment to their places of primary assignment 12 months. From October 2022 to September 2023.

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