UNPAID DECEMBER STIPENDS AND SELECTIVE AND ARBITRARY PAYMENTS OF JANUARY STIPENDS: WHOSE FAULT? STATE GOVERNMENTS OR VOLUNTEERS?

By O. Mariam 

Allow me to begin this epistle on an accusation note...

State governments are responsible for our unpaid December stipends and the selective and arbitrary January's payments, and other related irregularities in the Npower scheme...

Having clearly and succinctly established the main driving point of my narrative and which will also stand as the founding motive of my piece of writing, follow me keenly as I try to juxtapose and elaborate the various scenarios that led to the above truism.

Npower is a federal government scheme and as such, should be characterized by the principle of equity, equality and fairness to all the 36 states of the federation; by this, I mean all states across the federation are, or should be given equal opportunities. 

A brief reminiscence into the genesis of this program will reveal to us how majority of the northern states have welcomed it open handedly and given it the most deserved attention and recognition while their counterparts in the South were still doubting its sustainability. They couldn't believe the federal government could really embark on such laudable initiative; empowering young graduates with a token of N30,000 per month. They were also surprised and shocked that the federal government could succeed in that gigantic effort without the active participations and involvements of states. No politician was given consideration. So they were still under the shock when their northern counterparts took advantage of the offer. And that justifies why most northern states have lesser issues of reported cases compared to their southern counterparts.

When the north was busy with state organized verifications, in the south, we were still directionless. It took us two or three weeks to be updated to level with the north.

Now that it is time for harvest and time to enjoy the benefits of the scheme, the south is lagging behind... Updates upon updates, reverifications upon reverifications, rescreenings upon rescreenings, followed by mass disqualifications of successful volunteers in some cases (Ogun state)... While most participants of the same program in the north are already enjoying 3 months salaries...

A state like Lagos bluntly refused to allow the verifications of successful volunteers until they resorted to protest. Till date, no volunteer in Lagos state has been paid a dime. 

Now the question is, whose fault? This is clearly the fault of the state governments. No need to mince words.

In Osun state where over 10,000 volunteers were successfully verified on the 10 and 12 December 2016, only 600 received their December stipends early January. The subsequent payment that was made on March 1, 2017 was very selective and  controversial as many volunteers were left unpaid and the month specification was not indicated. 

The worst of it all is the "I don't care attitude" of the state government towards the yarning of the suffering youths. 

Using this medium to call on all concerned authorities at both the state and federal levels to put into place mechanisms and devices that will attend to and alleviate all challenges faced by the volunteers in every state and ensure they are regularly paid, we also implore all volunteers to do all what is required from them to fix the itches, and call on them to always speak up and employ all legal and civil means to ensure the irregularities of the scheme are exposed and attended to.

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D 2nd coming of Jesus even sure. It's like waiting for Nigeria to win world cup. Kikikiki

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Dear xxxxxxxx, 
Sequel to the volunteer application you made with us, you are hereby invited for an interview/training on Thursday 2nd March 2017 by 2pm prompt at Peka Hotels, No 4, Opebi road, Ikeja, Lagos.

Kindly come along with;
1. Your passport photograph and CV
2. Handwritten guarantor's letter
3. His/her passport photograph and photocopy of official ID card. 
CONTENT OF THE GUARANTOR's LETTER:
1. Relationship with you (mother, brother etc)
2. How long he/she has known you.
3. That he/she will take responsibility if you don't keep to terms and conditions.
It should be addressed to;
Director of Outreach,
Eye Plus Project,
Eye Plus Complex Moshood Abiola way,
Opposite Shagari Plaza, Garki Area 1
FCT, Abuja.

N/B: Religious leaders, Military/Paramilitary officials and Lawyers canNOT stand in as guarantors.

See you tomorrow. 
07038090190

Kikikiki Application closes 8th November 2017, only shortlisted individuals will be contacted. We go apply by September.

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U need t knw wot ur going for b4 hitting d road

Nw I see Hw senseless our govt is

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The venue of the chat is Emperor Place, 97, Ijede Road, Cele Bus Stop, Ikorodu, Lagos.
 
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Dear all verification exercise kicks off 2mao at all d 20 LGAs of state. Pls note d venue for d following LGAs
*Alimosho LGA - IKOTUN office
*Lagos mainland LGA - yaba office by Panti
*Eti-osa LGA - ikoyi obalende office
*Ifako ijaye - Area office NRC.
Kindly exercise maturity and diligence for a smooth exercise. Best of luck
Source: Lagos State NOA Director

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Presidency Warns Against Sales Of Social Investment Programmes’ Forms
Channels Television. 
Updated January 15, 2017
The Presidency in Nigeria has asked citizens to refuse paying any money for the Federal Government’s Social Investment Programmes (SIP), saying none of the programmes attracts an application fee.
A spokesman for the Vice President, Mr Laolu Akande, gave the government’s position on the programme on Sunday while giving a weekly media update on the SIP.

He said the government had received reports about instances where Nigerians were being asked to pay application fees for SIP forms.

“We want to make it clear that such action is illegal and could warrant criminal prosecution.

“Let us make this very clear: in order to benefit from N-Power, you don’t have to pay any application fees at all.

“The way to apply is to go online to the N-Power portal. But it is not open right now as we are still working on the 200,000 unemployed graduates already engaged,” Mr Akande explained.
Regarding the CCT, he also explained that there were no application forms or fees to be paid either.

He said: “We are using a Community-Based Targeting template of the World Bank and as we have explained this is the mode of identifying the poorest of the poor and the most vulnerable”.

The Vice President’s spokesman observed that there were instances during the N-Power online application process when some leaders decided to gather information of their people and then upload them onto the N-Power Internet portal to meet the online application requirement.

“We don’t frown on such an effort as long as the information of the N-Power applicants are properly in-putted online. But we frown at anyone selling forms to Nigerians for this programmes,” he said.

On claims that some party agents have been involved in such illegal form sales, Mr Akande said “the rule affected everyone”.

“No one should sell forms for N-Power or any of the President’s Social Investment Programmes. That is exploitation and it is fraudulent.”
On the progress so far recorded on the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT), Mr Akande said payment was now taking place in all the nine pilot states, adding that altogether FG has already made cash available to keep the payments going.

Akande said while the CCT payments have started in the pilot states, although not everyone in those states have been paid due to logistics and banking challenges. He disclosed that three banks Stanbic, Access and GTB have been very helpful in the process, including supporting the implementation of aspects of the CCT pro bono.

The Vice President’s spokesman also told reporters that the Homegrown School Feeding Programme would also proceed this week with the addition of five states who will now be getting FG funding to ensure that primary school pupils in those states start enjoying one hot meal a day.

Ogun, Oyo, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Osun states would be added added to Anambra where the school feeding programme kicked off last year, to increase the number of states where the programme is being implemented to six.

At least 5.5 million Nigerian primary school pupils would be fed for 200 school days under the free Homegrown School Feeding Programme, according to the 2016 Budget, which has an allocation of 93.1 billion Naira appropriated for the feeding scheme.
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Gud evening all... Please anybody with hints about DO-ESTDOT NURSERY & PRIMARY SCHOOL..... I was invited for interview tomorrow mon 16/01/17.... Please is it worth going and what is their pay structure.....
Thanks

Gud evening all... Please anybody with hints about DO-ESTDOT NURSERY & PRIMARY SCHOOL..... I was invited for interview tomorrow mon 16/01/17.... Please is it worth going and what is their pay structure.....
Thanks

D question is do this govt officials thruly knw anytin abt npower? > , wont b surprise if lagos state govt of all state can say they dnt knw anytin abt it. Bunch of dullard..... . Prayer is all u need nw.

stand to be corrected# The Lagos state Government seems to be
playing with fire. We all gathered at Alausa this Morning hoping
that the verification would commence as earlier circulated on this
platform yesterday, but lo and behold we were told that some
group of Lagos Npower volunteers were there protesting peacefully
yesterday , but because their number was insignificant about 23,
nobody answered them or paid attention to them saying that
nobody in Lagos State Executive , Legislative or Ministries and
Department is aware of the FGN NPOWER PROGRAMME # imagine
the nonsense#. They later told them that only a selected few,
about six of them to be precise should come today being Tuesday
to hold a secret closed door meeting to represent the interest of
11,000 volunteers across 20 local government. #imagine the
nonsense#, but surprisingly when fellow volunteers started turning
up today, we numbered up to 500 , and seriously we were all
agitated and angry to hear of what transpired on Monday, nothing
conclusive, therefore when they said we should be patient for them
to attend the closed door meeting, we refused, and all decided to
march down to the Governor's Office to plead our cause in one
large voice, luckily enough we got the attention of the Speaker of
the Lagos House of Assembly Hon. Mudashiru as his convoy was
coming into the complex, he had to come down and address us
and told us that the Government including the Legislative is not
aware of the Npower programme at all, but that he will make
enquiries into issues now that we have informed him to settle our
grievances, unsatisfied we proceeded to the office of the Governor
were the policemen tried holding us back, but we successfully
gained their attention and were directed to meet with
Representatives from the office of the office of Secretary to the
Lagos state Government and NOA offices. There they finally told us
that they had never being aware, but now that we had made them
aware Ambode has finally signed the MOU and that they were
going to start acting on that from now slowly being that Lagos is
big and organized so that they will not end up employing
miscreants and people with fake certificates into Government
offices and Department, we tried telling them that was the purpose
why the FGN involved them them for the verification exercise,
hence they should proceed with our verification so that we can be
paid our December stipend, but they refused saying that the office
of one Mrs Falana( Lagos State Focal person) in the Ministry Of
Women Affairs will need to inform relevant authorities as well as
print and publicize the programme while working out modalities on
how they can absorb some of us to be employed, and that they will
get back to us by the end of January #IMAGINE THE BIG
NONSENSE # Lagos State Govt is playing with Fire, and they will be
burnt, they think this is a State Govt tribalism oriented
programme...Shame on Ambode and his Men. Npower Lagosians,
stand up and fight for your right before this people hijack it.
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Out of 11,700 that was chosen only close to 30 came out. We were very few yesterday that's why the governor couldn't attend to us. Just calculate 30,000 ×11,000 for just one month stipend and see the result.
If someone can come all the way from Epe, Lekki, and Ikorodu what about you that live close by. I was suprised yesterday when only 3 people came out from Ikeja.
I want to assure you something our turnout today will determine if Ambode is going to attend to us.
Also please am begging you no weapon or any act that may lead to chaos, i believe we're intellectual graduates that knows what is right.
If you don't come out to speak for yourself nobody will speak for you, its high time we demand for our right. Its just for today alone. Copied!

PLS DISREGARD THE EALIER INFORMATION THAT VERIFICATION WILL COMMENCE TOMORROW BECOS ITS NOT TRUE AND I REPEAT THERE WILL NOT BE VERIFICATION TOMORROW. RATHER IT WAS NECESSITATED IN ORDER TO FORESTALL SANITY IN THIS OUR BATTLE AND ENSURE SUCCESSFUL ENGAGEMENT WITH THE GOVERNMENT. IT WAS GLARING THAT LACK OF NUMBER DID WORKED AGAINST US AND WE NEED TO LET THEM SEE WHAT WE ARE CAPABLE OF. IF U COME OUT TOMORROW TO JOIN US ENMASS THEN THEY WILL HAVE NO CHOICE THAN TO DANCE TO OUR TUNES. I STRONGLY BELIEVE IN US AS A COLLECTIVE BODY.I CAN ASSURE YOU OF SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENT IF WE CAN PLEASE SPARE TOMORROW FOR ALL OF US TO TACKLE THIS MENACE BEDEVILING US.WE APPRECIATE UR UNFLINCHING SUPPORT SO FAR, I AM SURE WE ARE WINNERS AND EE WILL WIN.
THANKS.

Pls I also need it sir donejossy87@outlook.com. Thanks

My own prophecies for 2017
1. €1=#1
2. 1bag of rice=#2500
3. Politicians wil bcm Pastors nd prophets.
4. God dey

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