₦airaland Forum

I think they appear as a different organization, so most of us might have applied through one of their camouflaged job recruitments. lets all be more careful.

Taking a critical look at the programe and the amount paid as stipend, volunteers can not achieve anything tangible even if the program continues indefinitely, for the following reasons;
1. The stipend is 30,000.00 NGN I.e 1000 NGN per day which is not even enough take care of a primary school pupil per day.
2. Stipend payment is not constant each month, which force so many volunteers to leave on interest loan or loan from family and friends that the 30k stipend can never cover even when it eventually comes.
3. Due to fluctuations in payment volunteers can not have any savings to start anything called business.
4. Due to failure to pay stipend on time, N-power is not regarded as a JOB, no financial institution will lend any Npower volunteer loan or provide facility for any form of business. Even the weekly, bi weekly or monthly group contribution that is usually done within community will be forbidden for N-power volunteers, as they will always fail due to irregular payment of stipends.
5. During the commencement of the programe, N-power volunteers were promised to be trained and empowered with useful skills and provided a leraning device, which was a night mare for most the volunteers, particularly batch B.
Now tell me, has the program tackled unemployment or worsen the situation? The volunteers deserve befitting and handsome exit or transition packages.