Nigerian government on Tuesday gave the real number of applicants the N-Power program will soon enroll.
This is contained in a speech Vice President, Yemi Osinabjo conveyed at the National Economic Summit.
He stated, “The N-Power program for jobless graduates has utilized 200,000 young people with another 300,000 set to be selected.”
On the Home Grown School Feeding Program, Osinbajo revealed that
around 3 million children across 14 States are taking an interest with the numbers expected to increase as it covers 21 States in this new academic session”.
N-Power online assessment test started July 1 and finished August 31.
Candidates in four classifications – Tax, Health, Agro and Teach – endeavored the test.
The term of the program is 2 years and members will experience an initial enlistment training prior to deployment.
The government as of late cautioned that volunteers caught or implicated in the offer of the program’s tablets would be expelled.
Presidential Aide on Job Creation and Youth Empowerment, Mr Afolabi Imoukhuede, said “information reaching us is that some of our N-Power Volunteers are endeavoring to arrange their gadget, we encourage you to your greatest advantage not to do so.
“Once got, you would not only be expelled from the program, you would be blacklisted from other national government’s social Investment Programs.
“A lien would likewise be set on your bank accounts for the full discount of the benefit cost to the Bank of Industry”.