The Federal Government says N-Power beneficiaries who have concluded the 2-year job Programme will now be able to access permanent job opportunities or business prospects in line with the N-power exit strategy now activated by the Buhari administration.
Under the plan, 200,000 beneficiaries will be engaged as financial services operators under a Shared Agent Network Expansion Facility (SANEF) scheme operated by the Central Bank of Nigeria;
Report says over 30,000 have already been engaged as geospatial experts and enumerators in the Economic Sustainability Plan’s Mass Agric programme, while several others will have the option of benefiting from the GEEP micro-enterprise loans.
According to report, most beneficiaries of the scheme have already uploaded their data in line with the FG N-exit plan
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq confirmed the activation of the Federal Government’s exit strategy for batches A and B of the N-Power scheme, on Monday at the 4th annual review of the Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP).
According to her, plans have been concluded for the transition of the N-power batch A and B through the creation of the N-EXIT portal, which would allow those who choose to sign up to access other government empowerment opportunities.
Also, a beneficiary management system for the NSIPs is expected to be deployed in 2021 which would have the capacity to manage payments, address grievances and improve the dissemination of information.”
According to the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Agriculture, Dr Andrew Kwasari, “over 30,000 former N-Agro beneficiaries have been enlisted and deployed to Local Government Areas across the country for the mapping of farmlands, enumeration of farmers under the Mass Agric Programme and they are being supervised by the agricultural development officers in the Local Government Areas
