N-Power to Employ Another 300,000 Graduates as Portal Reopens June 13

By Modupe Gbadeyanka

Registrations for one of the National Social Investment Programmes (N-SIP) of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration tagged the N-Power will reopen on June 13, 2017.

This was made known by the Presidency on Monday.

Since the commencement of the scheme, thousands of unemployed graduates have been given jobs ranging from teaching, agric extension and healthcare.

According to the Presidency, in 2017, the N-Power programme will give jobs to 300,000 unemployed graduates. It said all volunteers will get a computing device which will be used in executing their primary roles and help them take advantage of additional learning opportunities.

The N-Power programme, it said, has enhanced record keeping and reduced waiting times at Primary Health Care centres across Nigeria.

Also, in the N-SIP in 2017, millions of primary school pupils will be added as beneficiaries to the Home Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSFP).

Already, about 12,000 direct jobs have been created in the food supply chain through the Home Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSFP).

By the end of April 2018, 1.2million people would have benefitted from the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP).

It was stated that the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) has seen impressive participation by women, recording 56 percent of the allocated loans so far, while in the next few months, loan disbursements of GEEP is expected to increase to 150,000 beneficiaries.

About 400,000 beneficiaries across more states will come on board the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme in the next few months.

The Social Housing Fund is a new aspect of the SIP that will enable any Nigerian who earns at least 30,000 monthly to become a home owner.