Fellow Nairalanders I greet you all.
First and foremost, let me state that I am a job seeking graduate who graduated in 2012 and like others applied for the N-Power Programme. I want to also state that I understand fully well the challenges faced by unemployed graduates as I am one myself. That being said, I want to draw our attention to the mindset of most people applying for the N-Power Programme. A lot of people are joining the Programme not to work but to make "free money".Some people hope that after being successful they can maneuver their way around the Programme and be collecting the stipends to be paid without doing any work. Please fellow Nigerians, this is very corrupt and quite frankly, a proof of the trouble awaiting us in future, I mean if the future leaders are already looking for ways to take advantage of the system what bright future is there to hope for? Please, I appeal to those of us planning to do such to put the future of the Country at heart and reconsider, if you don't care about Nigeria at least fear God. Thank you

Because there is no measures to check those that are gainfully employed

You are right, some of us have the job and still not satisfied with the job. Someone like me I work with a financial institution as a marketer with target thou the salary is more than Npower but I will leave the job for Npower. I was just discharged from hospital, will I still sit down with such job. I am already into sewing of clothes which am learning, with Npower I can learn it peaceful. Don't blame some of us.

I was using my office wi-fi to register for my girlfriend before I knew everyone was just saying register me, register me that it's an extra income, for crying out loud ds is for unemployed graduates, provided u re @ least earning anything above 30k leave it for those who aren't earning @ all, over a million people have applied already and am so over 40% of them re salary earners. just imagine u getting double salary n someone else is getting nothing. it's really bad! Change should really begin with us

You are using office Wifi to register for your girlfriend, yet shocked that some people are working and want to do Npower. coming to equity with soiled hands

yaqq:
I was using my office wi-fi to register for my girlfriend before I knew everyone was just saying register me, my cousins re all collecting. I was so shocked!

Please what names should be my first, middle and last name according to how it is in my bvn? Please those that have registered should enlighten me. Thanks

fizzy4luv:
You are using office Wifi to register for your girlfriend, yet shocked that some people are working and want to do Npower. coming to equity with soiled hands

nd what's wrong with that? If I can use it to browse Nairaland I can't use it for any other stuffs? it's not just for office use. how does ds relate even relate to people registering for what was meant for unemployed graduates? talk about the subject not me

missyojo:
Please what names should be my first, middle and last name according to how it is in my bvn? Please those that have registered should enlighten me. Thanks

your surname is your last name

OP. Is there any group chat? So we can be updated from time to time about the latest info. Cos that stipend no matter how small would go a long way.
07065704757. For any WhatsApp group chat

what of those that ve been collecting free money
what is source for the goose is source for the gander
which work do senators do

I think lalasticlala and mynd44 should push this to front page.

We are all shouting our leaders are corrupt yet we are doing worse than them. Anyone who is gainfully employed yet collecting npower stipends as a side income is as corrupt as the govt official who steals 19billion dollars...

What most of these npower beneficiaries do is that they collect the money and pay a percentage of the stipend to the head of wherever they are posted to and pocket the rest.

Still yet same people come out and shout government is corrupt. People are dying everyday out of hunger, this scheme sef was meant for those who can't even afford one meal per day. But yet the rich and average class still take advantage of it.

I was tempted to apply but I searched within my conscience and told myself its not right. Let us be true Christians/muslims and think of the neighbour who can't fend for himself or herself.


Be the change so we can make Nigeria better for those who can't afford 1 square meal.


Nobody should quote me negatively because I am ready to rebuke any silly comment..

My two cents

This what most people are doing

Double hustling!

very well said. how we got to this stage is still like a dream. corrupt minds everywhere

Aniekpeno11:
Fellow Nairalanders I greet you all.
First and foremost, let me state that I am a job seeking graduate who graduated in 2012 and like others applied for the N-Power Programme. I want to also state that I understand fully well the challenges faced by unemployed graduates as I am one myself. That being said, I want to draw our attention to the mindset of most people applying for the N-Power Programme. A lot of people are joining the Programme not to work but to make "free money".Some people hope that after being successful they can maneuver their way around the Programme and be collecting the stipends to be paid without doing any work. Please fellow Nigerians, this is very corrupt and quite frankly, a proof of the trouble awaiting us in future, I mean if the future leaders are already looking for ways to take advantage of the system what bright future is there to hope for? Please, I appeal to those of us planning to do such to put the future of the Country at heart and reconsider, if you don't care about Nigeria at least fear God. Thank you

So in another words, we are not entitle to the national cake too ? You are on your own

My hope is to get the 30k stipend and continue working with my Indian coy..... @Op coman beat me

I actually thought it was someone from the government that said it, thank God it is you

*PMB is not the problem of Nigeria*

Please read this post by VOA (Victor Okechukwu Anyaegbuna)
I repeat, PMB is not the problem of Nigeria. Take it or leave it.
So
WHO ARE THE KLEPTOCRATS?
Read this intriguing and provocative piece; yet Nigerians refuse to be provoked instead holding one man, Buhari, responsible for all their woes!
How far can you push a Nigerian before he reacts like an angry lion?
Isn't it a ridiculous mockery and insult that Nigerians are the only world citizens that when pushed to the wall, spend more energy to break the wall and cross over rather than fight back?
Read this and let's know who our real enemies and shameless oppressors are - GOVERNORS, EX-GOVERNORS, SENATORS, REPS. Can't we do something to get rid of these big thieves that use our power against us?
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
NIGERIANS WAKE UP!
A lion never shies away from a fight when it is hungry, neither does it blame the buffalo for resisting or refusing to be eaten.
How come our forefathers dared death and everything to give us a sane society?
Shaaaaaame!!!
Please endeavour to read this very interesting piece!

STATE OF THE NATION
A SELF DECEIVING COUNTRY CALLED NIGERIA

Twenty-one senators currently receiving pensions from government as ex-governors and deputy governors.

The current senators who once served as governors are Bukola Saraki of Kwara, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano, Kabiru Gaya of Kano, Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, Theodore Orji of Abia, Abdullahi Adamu of Nasarawa, Sam Egwu of Ebonyi, Shaaba Lafiagi of Kwara, Joshua Dariye of Plateau Jonah Jang of Plateau, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto, Ahmed Sani Yarima of Zamfara, Danjuma Goje of Gombe, Bukar Abba Ibrahim of Yobe, Adamu Aliero of Kebbi, George Akume of Benue and Isiaka Adeleke of Osun.

The former deputy governors in the Senate are Ms Biodun Olujimi of Ekiti and Enyinaya Harcourt Abaribe of Abia. Danladi Abubakar Sani served as the acting governor of Taraba state.

Many former governors are also in Buhari's Cabinet as Ministers. This includes: Ngige, Fayemi, Amaechi and Fashola (SAN).).

In Akwa Ibom State, the law provides that ex governors and deputy governors receive pension equivalent to the salaries of the incumbent. The package also includes a new official car and a utility vehicle every four years; one personal aide; a cook, chauffeurs and security guards for the governor at a sum not exceeding N5 million per month and N2.5 million for his deputy governor.

In Rivers, the law provides 100 percent of annual basic salaries for the ex-governor and deputy, one residential house for the former governor “anywhere of his choice in Nigeria”; one residential house anywhere in Rivers for the deputy, three cars for the ex-governor every four years and two cars for the deputy every four years.

It is alledged that in Lagos, a former governor will get two houses, one in Lagos and another in Abuja, estimated at N500 million in Lagos and N700 million in Abuja. He also receives six new cars to be replaced every three years; a furniture allowance of 300 percent of annual salary to be paid every two years, and a N30 million pension annually for life.

This is the reality for all the 21 ex govenors and deputy governors who are currently serving as senators. This same is also true of ex governors who are now serving as Ministers.

NOW I ASK:
How many years did these guys serve their states as governors and deputy governors? Is it more than 8years? Is that a reason to be entitled to pensions for life? Even if they are entitled to pension for life, must it be so outrageous?

As if that is not enough: HOW on earth can any public servant with conscience collect salaries and allowances as a senator or minister, and still have the audacity to claim pensions equivalent to the salaries of a serving governor in Nigeria?

IT ISN'T ROCKET SCIENCE......

Once you are elected a senator or appointed a minister, you must forfeit any pension accruing to you from government at any level until yo

Aniekpeno11:
Fellow Nairalanders I greet you all.
First and foremost, let me state that I am a job seeking graduate who graduated in 2012 and like others applied for the N-Power Programme. I want to also state that I understand fully well the challenges faced by unemployed graduates as I am one myself. That being said, I want to draw our attention to the mindset of most people applying for the N-Power Programme. A lot of people are joining the Programme not to work but to make "free money".Some people hope that after being successful they can maneuver their way around the Programme and be collecting the stipends to be paid without doing any work. Please fellow Nigerians, this is very corrupt and quite frankly, a proof of the trouble awaiting us in future, I mean if the future leaders are already looking for ways to take advantage of the system what bright future is there to hope for? Please, I appeal to those of us planning to do such to put the future of the Country at heart and reconsider, if you don't care about Nigeria at least fear God. Thank you

I stand with you. What ever is worth doing, is worth doing well. We youths these days are desperados , we have to do our best to change things for better in the little office we manage, God bless you. God bless Nigeria.

Aniekpeno11:
Fellow Nairalanders I greet you all.
First and foremost, let me state that I am a job seeking graduate who graduated in 2012 and like others applied for the N-Power Programme. I want to also state that I understand fully well the challenges faced by unemployed graduates as I am one myself. That being said, I want to draw our attention to the mindset of most people applying for the N-Power Programme. A lot of people are joining the Programme not to work but to make "free money".Some people hope that after being successful they can maneuver their way around the Programme and be collecting the stipends to be paid without doing any work. Please fellow Nigerians, this is very corrupt and quite frankly, a proof of the trouble awaiting us in future, I mean if the future leaders are already looking for ways to take advantage of the system what bright future is there to hope for? Please, I appeal to those of us planning to do such to put the future of the Country at heart and reconsider, if you don't care about Nigeria at least fear God. Thank you

The Average Nigerian is congenitally corrupt.

missyojo:
Please what names should be my first, middle and last name according to how it is in my bvn? Please those that have registered should enlighten me. Thanks

Your Surname is your Last name, the name everyone calls you is the First name while your other name is your Middle name.
Cheers

lereinter:
what of those that ve been collecting free money
what is source for the goose is source for the gander
which work do senators do

No Sir! You don't fight evil with evil.

Exactly the reason why I refused to apply

egbaguy2:
My hope is to get the 30k stipend and continue working with my Indian coy..... @Op coman beat me

Nobody will beat you Sir. I am only appealing to your conscience to consider posterity

It's national cake na

We seem not to care about what our Govt does. As long as we can fend for ourselves what ever they do doesn't bother us.

I think that the Govt. should also take responsibility of screening the applicants. one measure would also be to train the screened applicants for at least a period of two weeks.
through this process those working will have to run back to their places of work.
Govt. should also set up a monitoring team that will be visiting those places candidates are posted for check and balances.

So my point is that there are measures that cab help to sieve out fake applicants but I don't think this govt. is really serious about such measures.

finally, just like the OP said, let's try to be human. What shall it profit u to earn ur salary else where and still collect n power stipend.

bellotaofeek:


So in another words, we are not entitle to the national cake too ? You are on your own

Not so. I am saying we should do things the right way