Beneficiaries of the Federal Government N-Power scheme are growing impatient with the delay in stipends as another week of October starts, Afriupdate reports.
This news understands that federal workers usually receive their salaries between 25th and 30th of each month. But N-Power beneficiaries – classified as Federal Government workers too – do not have a consistent payday.
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Every month, the Nigerian government spends about N15 billion as stipends on over 500,000 volunteers of the N-Power scheme, a component of the National Social Investment Programmes (N-SIP).
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In 2016 when the N-Power programme started, 200,000 beneficiaries were selected and deployed to their Primary Place of Assignment (PPA) out of about 700,000 Nigerian graduates who reportedly applied.
The scheme also engages another 200,000 non-graduates in training or on attachment to organisations as interns.
The graduate beneficiaries earn a monthly stipend of N30,000.
Headquartered under the office of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, N-Teach is the most popular of the N-SIP, which also focuses on health, agriculture and public finance in the graduate category of the scheme.
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Below are some reactions over unpaid 2019 Septemberstipend:
What happening
— Umukoro Timothy (@umukoro_timothy) October 1, 2019
https://twitter.com/AbdusalamAbuba5/status/1181206911598960640
https://twitter.com/Hanifatu3/status/1180438767380959232
Please Npower pay me my backlog of five months. From December 2016-April2017. This delay and silence is getting out of hand.
— John Ijeoma Rachael (@ijeomarachael) October 1, 2019
https://twitter.com/obiomachigozie/status/1180953190285619201
Its now a tradition, today's date is 37th of September, 2019
4 those who know.@npower_ng do something, It's over a year & no news about device for batch 2.
Owing graduates ₦30K, paying dropouts ₦26M
540,000 NPower beneficials get lesser than NGR legislators #pathetic
— Naija Get Mouth (@NaijaGetMouth) October 7, 2019
Honestly our stipend has become something else what is the problem of delayed if we don't have stipend again tell us to stop going to our PPA is no proper were do you guys expect us to get transportation to our working place especially we that our working place is far from us?
— Anthony Sarki (@Anthonyoffical0) October 7, 2019
https://twitter.com/AbdusalamAbuba5/status/1181206911598960640?s=20
Your Npower volunteers are yet to be paid their September stipend Mr President..I just hope you are aware of this nasty reoccurrence of stipend delays every month end.
— Mixta George (@mixtageorge) October 7, 2019
@npower_ng you people are doing a great job, kudos to you guys…. Plsss you people can do better by early payment..,.
— DAMISI….. YNWA (@jimlasdamisi) October 7, 2019
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