FG Begins Payment Of N5,000 Stipends To Unemployed Youths, Poor Nigerians
This was disclosed in a statement released by the Special Assistant to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo
on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande on Monday.
According to the statement, some of the states have already been funded and their participants have started receiving bank alerts through the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) of its Social Investment Programmes, SIP.
Laolu Akande added that funds for the commencement of the payments in four states were released last week to the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS), adding that the funds for another set of five states to complete the first batch of nine states would follow soon.
He also stated that the 200,000 beneficiaries of the N-Power programme, close to 50% of the graduates, have now been physically verified, and started receiving their monthly stipends of N30,000 last week.
The statement reads: ”A second batch of 300,000 unemployed graduates are expected to be selected early this year to make up the half a million target set by the Buhari administration.
”The verified graduates are now being deployed to work as assistant teachers in schools, as community health aides and as agricultural extension workers, in more than 20 States of the Federation. These States include; Abia, Adamawa, Bauchi, Anambra, Benue, Cross Rivers, Borno, Gombe, Edo, Jigawa, Katsina, Plateau, Kogi, Osun, Rivers, Zamfara, Niger, Sokoto, Ogun and Taraba.
”Government has also started the implementation of the National Home-grown School Feeding programme designed to feed 5.5 million school children for 200 school days in the first phase of the programme.
”Although the initial design was to feed pupils in 18 States, funding challenges had affected an earlier take-off. But the programme has now commenced in Osun, Kaduna and Anambra States. More states are expected to join this new year,’’ the statement added.
