The President of Nigeria, General Muhammadu Buhari, has directed the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development to step up beneficiaries of the N-Power programme by five million. Information Guide Nigeria

N-Power is a youth empowerment scheme of the Nigerian Government under the National Social Investment Programme that gives the avenue for skills acquisition and development for thousands of youths. THE PUNCH reports.

Sadiya Farouq, the Humanitarian Affairs Minister said the President instructed her ministry to add more N-Power beneficiaries, noting that Batch-C of the scheme, which admitted over one million persons, had been commissioned.

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Farouq made this known at the handing over of feeding utensils by the humanitarian ministry to beneficiaries of the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme, another NSIP scheme, in Nasarawa State. jamb results

In her words: “We have recently inaugurated the Batch C N-Power scheme, which is aimed at helping over one million unemployed Nigerian youths to gain useful experience and technical skills that they can convert into small businesses to further support themselves.

“This is in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s directives for the expansion of the programme to accommodate an additional five million beneficiaries.”