N-Power beneficiaries can now get permanent jobs, presidency says

Federal Government says N-Power beneficiaries, who have concluded the two-year job programme, will now be able to access permanent job opportunities or business prospects.

This is part of the newly-activated exit strategy for Batches A and B of the N-Power Programme.

Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, gave the update yesterday at the 4th annual review of the Home Grown School Feeding Programme,NHGSFP.

Under the plan, two hundred thousand beneficiaries will be engaged as financial services operators under the Shared Agent Network Expansion Facility,SANEF, operated by the Central Bank of Nigeria,CBN.

Sadiya said another thirty thousand beneficiaries have been engaged as geospatial experts and enumerators in the Economic Sustainability Plan’s Mass Agric programme.

Others will have the option of benefiting from the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme,GEEP, micro-enterprise loans.