ABUJA — The All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal
Government, yesterday, said the payment of the N5,000 stipend
to the unemployed Nigerian youths will commence next year.
It regretted that the payment could not take off immediately
because it was not included in this year’s budget.
Minister of Youths and Sports, Mr Solomon Dalong, revealed this
yesterday in Abuja when he paid a condolence visit to the
national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief
John Odigie-Oyegun, at the national secretariat in Abuja on the
demise of Prince Abubakar Audu, the late governorship
candidate of the party in Kogi State election.
Dalong, who spoke with journalists, assured that APC
government would also create more jobs to fulfill its campaign
promises.
The party, during the electioneering campaigns, had pledged to
pay N5000 stipend to unemployed youths monthly.
Said he: “I would want the youths to understand that every
promise must be backed up by budgetary provision and our
promise to pay N5000 is not contained in the 2015 budget. So,
definitely, it is going to begin in 2016 as we have made
budgetary allocations for that.
“We are committed to the campaign promises of creating jobs,
providing wealth creation and combat poverty. We have
embedded in our manifesto things that we are translating to
reality.
“We are busy reviewing some of the youth empowerment
programmes that are ongoing, to ensure that they are more
viable and people oriented. We are also looking at the possibility
of realigning some of them to our vision so that in the final
analysis, it can add value to the people”.
The minister also said that he would soon convene a
stakeholders meeting to help re-orientate the Nigerian youths.
In his remarks earlier, the National Chairman of APC, Chief
Oyegun, expressed optimism in the performance of Dalong as
Youths and Sports minister.


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Okay

on what basis will the payment be made?

This government is determined to eradicate poverty. I am proud I voted for Change.

OGAJosy:
on what basis will the payment be made?

keep asking end time questions

for a moment there i thought i saw 50,000.
Oh well...

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