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Federal government signs MOU with Unilorin on land for N-Power beneficiaries
The federal government has signed a ten-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) of 40-hectare farmland with the University of Ilorin in Kwara State, for the Social Intervention Programmes (SIP) N-Power Agro beneficiaries.
Presidency: Federal government not owing N-Power beneficiaries
The Presidency has declared that since the take off of N-Power, one of the social investment programme of the federal government in December 2016, that none of the beneficiaries has been owed.
Federal government tells N-Power beneficiaries to expect March stipend this week
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job Creation and Youth Empowerment, Mr. Afolabi Imoukhuede, has assured beneficiaries of the N-Power scheme that they would get their March stipend this week.
Presidency: N-Power is not politicised
Afolabi Imoukhuede, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job Creation and Youth Empowerment, has said that although N-power is a political campaign promise of All Progressives Congress, it is not politicised.
Official: Erring N-Power volunteers get 45 days notice to ‘repent’
Mr Afolabi Imoukhuede, Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the President on Job Creation and Youth Empowerment, said the scheme had devised a means of detecting erring volunteers.
N-Power extends 2016 batch A volunteers programme
Mr Afolabi Imoukhuede, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job Creation and Youth Empowerment, has said that the 2016 batch ‘A’ Npower volunteers programme has been extended.
Presidency: President Buhari approves ‘enhanced’ N-Power scheme
The federal government has provided new details, albeit sparse, about the ‘N-Power enhancement’ earlier announced for some beneficiaries of the social intervention programme dubbed: N-Power.
Federal government commences ‘N-Power-Enhance’ for Batch A beneficiaries
The federal government has commenced ‘N-Power-Enhance’, designed to advance the social investment programme (N-Power) which has empowered thousands of Nigerian youths across the country.
Presidency: Extension of Batch 1 N-Power scheme has no political undertone
Mr Afolabi Imoukhuede, Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to President Muhammadu Buhari on Job Creation, says the extension of the Batch 1 of the N-Power scheme for 200,000 volunteers beyond the November 2018 deadline has no political undertones.
N-Power to sanction monitors who extort money from volunteers
The Presidency says it will neither tolerate truancy nor allow independent assessors to extort money from N-power volunteers across the country.
Minister affirms federal government’s commitment to job creation, inaugurates multi-sectoral task team
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Prof. Stephen Ocheni, on Tuesday reiterated the commitment of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to reversing the ugly trend of youth unemployment through the involvement of a broad spectrum of stakeholders in a roundtable discussion on Youth Employment and Skills Development, in partnership with the African Development Bank Group.
60 Young Nigerians for Mandela Fellowship in US
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Afolabi Imoukhuede: Google search engine will change job narratives in Nigeria
Afolabi Imoukhuede, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Jobs Creation and Youth Employment, says usage of Google, a search engine, will change job narratives in Nigeria.
Federal govt disowns fake N-Power recruitment portal
The Federal Government has cautioned youths against being duped by scammers that are claiming they have jobs to offer through the N-Power programme.
Federal govt boosts N-Power skills training with N1.4 billion tools, kits
The Federal Government has spent N1.4 billion on the purchase of training kits and work tools for its technical arm of the job creation programme, the N-Build skills acquisition scheme.
Presidency criticises N-Power volunteers’ rampage
The presidential aide on Thursday criticised the violent attack on the Warri 1 MTN Connect Store by N-Power volunteers who attempted to forcibly collect N-Power devices not allocated to them.
Fed govt warns volunteers against selling N-Power devices
The Federal Government on Thursday warned that N-Power volunteers caught or implicated in the sale of the programme’s tablets would be dismissed.
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