President Bola Tinubu’s government has announced the introduction of a revamped N-Power Programme.
The federal government also announced plans for the creation of five million jobs for youths in five years through its N-Power scheme
The minister of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation, Betta Edu, confirmed the development during a recent interview.
The federal government headed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has stated that the redesigned N-Power scheme would create jobs for at least five million youths in the country.
This was made known by the minister of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation, Betta Edu, who was speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.
According to the minister, the N-Power scheme is a component of the safety net program designed to prevent people from falling into poverty.
“We are working on five million Nigerian youth between the ages of 18 and 40 and this will be taken one million per year. On the GEEP program, we’re working on 1.5 million Nigerians,” she said.
The minister made this assertion days after the FG suspended the scheme, a component of the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP), launched by former President Muhammadu Buhari on June 26, 2016, to combat youth unemployment and promote social development.
But in the redesigned programme, Edu stressed that the N-Power scheme would be on a first-come-first-serve basis.
She said the scheme and other social intervention programmes of the government are geared toward fighting poverty in the country.
