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Npower Stipend News Sept/October 2020 – Today’s 10 latest Updates

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Npower Stipend News Sept/October 2020 – See Today’s 10 latest Updates Here – Today we’re going to give you Npower September and October 2020 stipend News. You’ll See Today’s 10 latest Updates Here and how Npower.gov.ng can be used to get all trending n-power Nigeria updates. N-power 2020 application is currently online, click here to apply now.

Npower September Stipend News 2020 – Current Update Today

Unpaid Npower Exited Beneficiaries to Submit Documents to NOA within 72hrs – Following a series of complaints by exited N-power beneficiaries who are yet to receive their stipends, the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management has sent out SMS to the affected N-power beneficiaries to submit the following documents within 72 hours.

Therefore, if you are among unpaid N-power beneficiaries, kindly forward your:

  • Bank Statement from January 2020 to date
  • Your NYSC Discharge Certificate
  • Other Relevant Documents to the National Orientation Agency(NOA) in your State.
  • Please note that affected N-power beneficiaries are expected to submit these documents within 72 hours.
  • Kindly ignore the SMS if you have been paid.

Sadiya Umar Farouq, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Disaster Management and Social Development, She said: “As we renew our commitment to the service of humanity, I will like to seize this opportunity to once again state that we have successfully exited Batch A and B of the N-Power beneficiaries in June and July respectively and we are still working towards ensuring a transition plan that will further engage or absorb them into other programmes.

“We have also received over 5 million applications from proposed N-Power Batch C and we are currently in the process of selecting the qualified beneficiaries coming into the programme.

“I assure all the applicants and Nigerians that the selection process will be transparent.

“Furthermore, I wish to reiterate that I have given approval for the payment of stipends for the exited beneficiaries of batches A and B up to the month of June 2020 including that of the independent monitors.”

According to Farouq, “Also, the final payment of stipend for Batch B is almost ready for transmission to the office of the Accountant General of the Federation for final checks and payment.”

N-Power stipends: FG approves payment to exited beneficiaries: THE Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq has approved the payment of stipends to the exited N-Power beneficiaries.

A statement Thursday, by Nneka Ikem Anibeze, the minister’s Special Assistant on Media, quoted her as saying the “approval has been given for the payment of the outstanding stipends for the exited N-Power Batches A and B beneficiaries.”

“The approval for payments for up to the month of June 2020 for the two (2) Batches has already been forwarded to the office of the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) for final checks and payments.

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Batch A and B will start receiving June Stipends in no distant time. The Federal Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has approved June stipend

While speaking with DW News Channel, Sadiya blamed GIFMIS as a slow but effective platform for huge credit transactions like the N-power scheme

This will be the last stipend for Batch A volunteers as they exit the programme, the Federal government is transitioning volunteers into a new level of partnership, whose details are not clear as we speak

Batch B will be eliminated same way by July ending, giving way for Batch C entrance

Here is the brief Transcription of Sadiya Farouq with Binta Zumi on DW Hausa Version

‘‘BINTA ZUMI — What can you tell us about N-Power?

SADIYA — Npower is an initiation of President Muhammad Buhari to help the unemployed graduates

BINTA ZUMI– What is the fate of Npower beneficiaries?

SADIYA — Npower is a programme design for the beneficiaries to be train and exit after two years due to some issues the first batch was not exited but right now we have exited them from the programme and batch B will also be exited by end of this month.

BINTA ZUMI — Does the government have any plan for these exited youths that were disengaged?

SADIYA — Well majority of them have established themselves and they are doing well over 100, 000 of them and those who couldn’t be able to start up any business, we are currently discussing with CBN to give them a loan from GEEP, AGSMEIS and ANCHO BORROWER and other available loans but is not going to be compulsory.

BINTA ZUMI — Some beneficiaries are asking about their June stipend

SADIYA — Those who will received have received it and for the june stipend by next week they should receive it’’

The Interview with Sadiya Umar Farook regarding the Npower Batch A & B beneficiaries are as follows:

The payment of backlogs and June stipends to Npower beneficiaries will commence this week.

Npower Batch A has already been exited from the scheme since June 30th and Batch B will follow them on July 31st, 2020.

The Hon Minister did not talk about transition and exit packages for both batches, but she says they are negotiating with CBN to put us in some plans.

The Hon Minister also did not talk about Batch B devices

Regarding batch C enrollment exercise she said the portal will be close next week but no specific date and time yet.

The minister also said they maybe enroll into the program by the end of this year.

This post was last modified on November 22, 2020 7:26 AM

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Haruna Magaji: Haruna Magaji is a journalist, foreign policy expert and closet musician. He is a graduate of ABU Zaria and a member of the Nigerian union of journalists. JSA, as he is fondly called, resides in Suleja, Abuja. email him at - harunamagaji@financialwatchngr.com
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