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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by Jethrolite(m): 7:58am On Jan 11, 2018
Professionally written propaganda.

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by Nobody: 7:58am On Jan 11, 2018
I see haters allover here. Good for you @op.
I hate buhqri too fellow haters and 30k isn't really 30k after u take away expenses .
Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by ipodstinks: 7:59am On Jan 11, 2018
Dummy geaduate.

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by mckazzy(m): 8:00am On Jan 11, 2018
You're the one with head without useful substance in it.

N-Power is the idea of PMB/PYO on how to reduce the unemployment among the youths.

While u knw the truth but just trying to be �mischievous.


dammyloye:
mumu, dumb mofos everywhere.......there is difference between Buhari and federal government, federal government made that empowerment program so as to reduce the issues of insufficient staffs in our education and healthcare system. (a case of scratch my back make I scratch ur back)

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by bejeria101(m): 8:05am On Jan 11, 2018
Buhari is a relic! Gej is a hero! Never mix them up

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by AnodaIT(m): 8:08am On Jan 11, 2018
N30k hero when someone somewhere got a N56m power bike with full tank of fuel when others are queuing. Cruising on the street when others are butchered in their homes

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by AnodaIT(m): 8:10am On Jan 11, 2018
Jonathan conceived the idea under Sure P, Buhari just modify it and change the name
mckazzy:
You're the one with head without useful substance in it.

N-Power is the idea of PMB/PYO on how to reduce the unemployment among the youths.

While u knw the truth but just trying to be �mischievous.


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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by brightestjames: 8:13am On Jan 11, 2018
so because of 30k job? do you even have a dream at all? thunder fire poverty. do you realise you are earning less than 1000 per day? after the stress you went through in school?

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by jaxxy(m): 8:18am On Jan 11, 2018
9japrof:
Because of 30,000 naira per month, Buhari don turn your hero, poverty na bastard.

Imagine a government who could have done better, a government that corners the juicer jobs in CBN, Customs, NNPC, FIRS for their wards and cronies only to dash you 30k job of N-Power and you are shouting nonsense.

Sister walahi you need Jesus and a resounding slap to reset your brain to default and wake you from the buhsrised hypnotherapy you are undergoing

I hear of N power bt never met anyone doing this bt looking at its structure/Module it wud make better sense if they screen through their candidates cv and performance and get them better employment in larger cooperations and government parastatals as a continuum. However the 30k has helped alot of people out there so its still a credit to the govt in dat regard

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by eph12(m): 8:18am On Jan 11, 2018
If only this girl and others like her are wise, they will know that those that went to learn handwork can comfortable make more than that 30k easily

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by oweniwe(m): 8:19am On Jan 11, 2018
Histrings08:
Npower helps a lot of people, I know of a lot of graduates that has no means of income until d advent of npower, I'm a beneficiary myself... Buh the idea I don't buy is this BS cry for Fg to retain beneficiaries.. Why is that pls? Don't u want others that are coming to benefit too? Gather the money nd start something reasonable with it. My opinion though

Gather which money?

After all expenses, it's very hard to save from the Stipend.

If you want to rent shop 80k.... It'll take 5 months of very serious savings and depriving oneself of perks b4 one can save that 80k.... Then to save money to buy equipment or start up stock..... Another 4-5 mouths.... One year is almost gone... So it's not that easy

It's up to the state governments to retain volunteers.... But the FG could elongate the tenure to 2019.... Cos at the end of the year when the program is over, where do they want ppl to go?
Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by Kindoo: 8:22am On Jan 11, 2018
Good grammatical write-up. Keep applying for bigger jobs or save enough to trade when the program is over.

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by greatman247(m): 8:25am On Jan 11, 2018
dammyloye:
mumu, dumb mofos everywhere.......there is difference between Buhari and federal government, federal government made that empowerment program so as to reduce the issues of insufficient staffs in our education and healthcare system. (a case of scratch my back make I scratch ur back)

You don't have any point at all, ITK dey worry you and yet you lack brilliance. You just displayed huge ignorance in a public space like Nairaland. Now let me school you a little, since Buhari is the president of Nigeria, he is the FG, And FG is Buhari, anything achieved by FG is going to be tagged to Buhari being the President during the period the stuff was achieved, and more so, N-Power is part of his program, whether you like Buhari or Not cos he is the president so he is part of the Federal Government too and as a matter of fact he is the head of FG. If FG fails it means Buhari has failed too, whatever FG achieve Buhari also achieve too, but now that FG has achieve you want to exclude Buhari because you obviously hate him? Haba. And more-so, President, Vice president, Secretary to the President and all his political appointees like Ministers are also FG, they are all part of the Executive and they are also part of the decision makers that help shape your life and also affect your future. Get that into your thick skull Buhari hater. Pls get some little education at least and don't allow hate destroy you totally.

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by osscarr(m): 8:31am On Jan 11, 2018
So because of 30k buhari son turn your national hero
Poverty don romance you even give u belle join sef

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by Nelsizzy(m): 8:31am On Jan 11, 2018
greatman247:


You don't have any point at all, ITK dey worry you and yet you lack brilliance. You just displayed huge ignorance in a public space like Nairaland. Now let me school you a little, since Buhari is the president of Nigeria, he is the FG, And FG is Buhari, anything achieved by FG is going to be tagged to Buhari being the President during the period the stuff was achieved, and more so, N-Power is part of his program, whether you like Buhari or Not cos he is the president so he is part of the Federal Government too and as a matter of fact he is the head of FG. If FG fails it means Buhari has failed too, whatever FG achieve Buhari also achieve too, but now that FG has achieve you want to exclude Buhari because you obviously hate him? Haba. And more-so, President, Vice president, Secretary to the President and all his political appointees like Ministers are also FG, they are all part of the Executive and they are also part of the decision makers that help shape your life and also affect your future. Get that into your thick skull Buhari hater. Pls get some little education at least and don't allow hate destroy you totally.
I couldn't make a single sense from this. What are you trying to pass? undecided

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by JAWBONE(m): 8:31am On Jan 11, 2018
Why Buhari Failed 1985 version

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by Hasheem1hash(m): 8:32am On Jan 11, 2018
Oledia:
Good for you.

You are satisfy with it because you are a female. You don't have much financial burdens, you don't have people looking up to you for financial assistance, may be you don't have parents and siblings to support financially.
Let us consider the case of a guy leaving in a city like P.H. with its high cost of living. If he must spend #300 on transport fare, at the end of 24 working days, he must have spent #6,000 out of the #30,000. How much will he now save for rent? How much will he spend on food? How much will he spend on clothing and up keep? How much will be left for parents and siblings support? How much can he now have as a savings? Compare it with the millions of naira the not so educated, not so enlightened and not so hard working politicians are spending on just news paper allowances.

Nigerian Youths pls let us open our eyes. Let us emancipate ourselves from every delusional spirit we may have being enslaved. Let us wakeup to save Nigeria. Follow "Arise Nigerian Youths" on Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/arisenigerianyouth/
when you have no option and almost lost hope as a graduate, u dont have to calculate and disturb your peace with what the politician are earning coz u cant change their evil mindset. It obvious that common men like us can never change how the so-called law maker reason, we just have to grab whatever comes our way not because is the best but because thats the only option!...#stillhopeful!

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by benjaminoikhe: 8:32am On Jan 11, 2018
No need to read your stupid write up because only the headline show you are one of Buhari cow

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by Lomprico2: 8:34am On Jan 11, 2018
because of 30k

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by MrBONE2(m): 8:37am On Jan 11, 2018
Baawaa:

I am a female graduate of Tai-solarin University of Education, Ogun state with a BSc Certificate in Industrial Chemistry. The forlorn hope about the future started gripping me two months to graduation, driving me to a point of sickness. I came from a poor family not privileged to have the right connection for people like me to secure a job after graduation.

I got sick more and more listening to stories of frustration told by those who graduated before me. Many of them, out of frustration became apprentices to learn menial jobs. Many who languished under inclement weather of bad economy turned to prostitution to eke out life. Many ended up as mere servants in the homes of even the middle class, contending with attendant insults and low self-esteem. Even those who got supposedly good jobs lament bitterly about poor pay and treatment of ignominy by the agencies who recruited them. Majority of young graduates, I know are still in their parents homes, degenerating by the day. I had prayed every day to God to make my case different. Yes, there were few privileged graduates who earned good jobs, yet, they could be counted on fingertips, I had hoped to be one of them.

After graduation in 2014, I was posted to Kebbi State in 2015 for mandatory National Youths Service. I love Kebbi for the peace and tranquility it offered, coming from the southwestern part of Nigeria. Within a year of my service in Kebbi, I opened my mind to the possibility of becoming a rice merchant. This is because, Kebbi by the grace of the Anchor Borrowers Programme initiated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had become a leading state in the growth of rice. My plan then was to purchase rice in bags and transfer them down south to start a business as a graduate after my NYSC programme. It was a solid plan, which I would have initiated for others to follow, all things being equal

Bright as the idea of becoming a rice merchant looked, I had the excitement cut short by my Local Government Inspector in Kebbi, Alhaji Idris who raised the issue of huge capital as the first requirement. I had no idea of how to raise over a million naira to start the business. Yet, I was hopeful. After completing my NYSC year in Kebbi, I returned to Ibadan, Oyo State to start counting on mother luck to bail me out. Nothing was forth coming until six months after when my lovely father put a call across to me to intimate me of a programme initiated by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, called N-Power; offer of job opportunities to 200, 000 young Nigerian graduates.

I did not appreciate the initial efforts by my father to link me up with N-Power. I had always regarded any programme from the federal government in that line, a ruse. My father persisted and had one day referred me to a statement by the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo that the programme was real. Osinbajo, in that report, impressed it on young graduates not to waste the opportunity, being part of President Buhari’s passion to mop up unemployment under his government. Incidentally, he was the Anchor of N-Power.

Owing to ceaseless efforts from daddy, I registered on line for N-Power on the very closing day, just to make him happy! I never placed hope on the efforts because of cynicism and bias I had against anything from the government. But six months after I turned in the application, I heard the rumour that names of beneficiaries had been shortlisted and published. Truly, some of those who were shortlisted came back pumping hands and getting pats on the back. It never occurred to me to make an effort to check. But I did because my father again prodded me to do so. I made the list and it was incredible, very unbelievable! I did not depend on the usual connection or link to pull through. The opportunity came on merit, just like that. Awesome! That was on November 21, 2016. From that day, President Muhammadu Buhari who many love to castigate became my own hero!

I went for the mandatory screening exercise in December 2016 and was finally selected. I was posted to Ewekoro Local Government area in Ogun State and resumed as a teacher on January 9, 2017. I appreciate the privileged to serve in that capacity. Since joining the N-Power scheme, I noticed that the government has never failed in paying up as at when due, monthly. Now, I reckon with the power and importance of the scheme. I was able to acquire additional skills and knowledge on Social Development, while also gaining from the study habits of the people through the other initiatives the government provided.

I am prodded to write my experience with the N-Power initiative, first to appreciate the concern by the Buhari’s government had on the high level of unemployment in Nigeria and the need to solve the problem. Most importantly, I intend to use this write up to beg the government for more.

For me, N-Power is a good initiative designed to solve the riddle of life for 200, 000 young graduates and providing hope for them. I urged the government to offer permanent employment to all the beneficiaries while opening fresh avenues for more young graduates to benefit. I make this appeal because the programme ends this year. Then, it is out of place for the government to throw the beneficiaries into the labour market again, after investing in them.

I seize this opportunity to thank the government of Ogun State under the able leadership of Senator Ibikunle Amosun for being very accommodating and hospitable to benefiicaries of N-Power. His government has promised not to let the worthy beneficiaries dow

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo deserves praise because of his steadfastness in making success out of N-Power. For me, he is the reason the programme was not hijacked by the very greedy and insatiable political leaders, either at the state level or federal.

I end by saying that no matter the machinations by the opponents against the government of President Buhari that means well for the youths, we the beneficiaries of N-Power will always appreciate it for what it stands for. I join others in praying for the continued success of the President and his government.
God bless President Muhammadu Buhari!

God bless Nigeria

 

Omolayo Osunbayo (Miss)

N-Power beneficiary, Ewekoro Local Government Area,

Ogun State.
Am so happy for you,keep it up,don't loss focus you will make it,my part am happy to tell you that me and my younger ones"5 of us" are currently Npower members,and can proudly say we are all making it in the field we are,and same time we are all investing with the little money we saved from our stipends in livestock farming.

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by CallMeOO7(m): 8:43am On Jan 11, 2018
Baawaa:

I am a female graduate of Tai-solarin University of Education, Ogun state with a BSc Certificate in Industrial Chemistry. The forlorn hope about the future started gripping me two months to graduation, driving me to a point of sickness. I came from a poor family not privileged to have the right connection for people like me to secure a job after graduation.

I got sick more and more listening to stories of frustration told by those who graduated before me. Many of them, out of frustration became apprentices to learn menial jobs. Many who languished under inclement weather of bad economy turned to prostitution to eke out life. Many ended up as mere servants in the homes of even the middle class, contending with attendant insults and low self-esteem. Even those who got supposedly good jobs lament bitterly about poor pay and treatment of ignominy by the agencies who recruited them. Majority of young graduates, I know are still in their parents homes, degenerating by the day. I had prayed every day to God to make my case different. Yes, there were few privileged graduates who earned good jobs, yet, they could be counted on fingertips, I had hoped to be one of them.

After graduation in 2014, I was posted to Kebbi State in 2015 for mandatory National Youths Service. I love Kebbi for the peace and tranquility it offered, coming from the southwestern part of Nigeria. Within a year of my service in Kebbi, I opened my mind to the possibility of becoming a rice merchant. This is because, Kebbi by the grace of the Anchor Borrowers Programme initiated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had become a leading state in the growth of rice. My plan then was to purchase rice in bags and transfer them down south to start a business as a graduate after my NYSC programme. It was a solid plan, which I would have initiated for others to follow, all things being equal

Bright as the idea of becoming a rice merchant looked, I had the excitement cut short by my Local Government Inspector in Kebbi, Alhaji Idris who raised the issue of huge capital as the first requirement. I had no idea of how to raise over a million naira to start the business. Yet, I was hopeful. After completing my NYSC year in Kebbi, I returned to Ibadan, Oyo State to start counting on mother luck to bail me out. Nothing was forth coming until six months after when my lovely father put a call across to me to intimate me of a programme initiated by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, called N-Power; offer of job opportunities to 200, 000 young Nigerian graduates.

I did not appreciate the initial efforts by my father to link me up with N-Power. I had always regarded any programme from the federal government in that line, a ruse. My father persisted and had one day referred me to a statement by the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo that the programme was real. Osinbajo, in that report, impressed it on young graduates not to waste the opportunity, being part of President Buhari’s passion to mop up unemployment under his government. Incidentally, he was the Anchor of N-Power.

Owing to ceaseless efforts from daddy, I registered on line for N-Power on the very closing day, just to make him happy! I never placed hope on the efforts because of cynicism and bias I had against anything from the government. But six months after I turned in the application, I heard the rumour that names of beneficiaries had been shortlisted and published. Truly, some of those who were shortlisted came back pumping hands and getting pats on the back. It never occurred to me to make an effort to check. But I did because my father again prodded me to do so. I made the list and it was incredible, very unbelievable! I did not depend on the usual connection or link to pull through. The opportunity came on merit, just like that. Awesome! That was on November 21, 2016. From that day, President Muhammadu Buhari who many love to castigate became my own hero!

I went for the mandatory screening exercise in December 2016 and was finally selected. I was posted to Ewekoro Local Government area in Ogun State and resumed as a teacher on January 9, 2017. I appreciate the privileged to serve in that capacity. Since joining the N-Power scheme, I noticed that the government has never failed in paying up as at when due, monthly. Now, I reckon with the power and importance of the scheme. I was able to acquire additional skills and knowledge on Social Development, while also gaining from the study habits of the people through the other initiatives the government provided.

I am prodded to write my experience with the N-Power initiative, first to appreciate the concern by the Buhari’s government had on the high level of unemployment in Nigeria and the need to solve the problem. Most importantly, I intend to use this write up to beg the government for more.

For me, N-Power is a good initiative designed to solve the riddle of life for 200, 000 young graduates and providing hope for them. I urged the government to offer permanent employment to all the beneficiaries while opening fresh avenues for more young graduates to benefit. I make this appeal because the programme ends this year. Then, it is out of place for the government to throw the beneficiaries into the labour market again, after investing in them.

I seize this opportunity to thank the government of Ogun State under the able leadership of Senator Ibikunle Amosun for being very accommodating and hospitable to benefiicaries of N-Power. His government has promised not to let the worthy beneficiaries down. We will continue to count on his promise too.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo deserves praise because of his steadfastness in making success out of N-Power. For me, he is the reason the programme was not hijacked by the very greedy and insatiable political leaders, either at the state level or federal.

I end by saying that no matter the machinations by the opponents against the government of President Buhari that means well for the youths, we the beneficiaries of N-Power will always appreciate it for what it stands for. I join others in praying for the continued success of the President and his government. 

God bless President Muhammadu Buhari!

God bless Nigeria

 

Omolayo Osunbayo (Miss)

N-Power beneficiary, Ewekoro Local Government Area,

Ogun State.

I hope you've been able to do your Rice Business with the 30k monthly stipend.

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by brimoknight(m): 8:51am On Jan 11, 2018
safarigirl:
"Graduate of Tai Solarin University of Education....."

Please, what is a University of Education? undecided

Imagine a graduate of Industrial Chemistry being content with having the job of a teacher when she could do so much more with that degree. Nigerian youths are a lost cause

She should have rejected the offer or what?
Ogbeni, stop talking like someone who fell from a tree.

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by Johncuppa(m): 8:52am On Jan 11, 2018
Oledia:
Good for you.

You are satisfy with it because you are a female. You don't have much financial burdens, you don't have people looking up to you for financial assistance, may be you don't have parents and siblings to support financially.
Let us consider the case of a guy leaving in a city like P.H. with its high cost of living. If he must spend #300 on transport fare, at the end of 24 working days, he must have spent #6,000 out of the #30,000. How much will he now save for rent? How much will he spend on food? How much will he spend on clothing and up keep? How much will be left for parents and siblings support? How much can he now have as a savings? Compare it with the millions of naira the not so educated, not so enlightened and not so hard working politicians are spending on just news paper allowances.

Nigerian Youths pls let us open our eyes. Let us emancipate ourselves from every delusional spirit we may have being enslaved. Let us wakeup to save Nigeria. Follow "Arise Nigerian Youths" on Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/arisenigerianyouth/
To start with, she never talked of being satisfied with #30,000. She had a vision and government never called NPOWER job - it is an empowerment, in my own opinion she is using NPOWER to gather resources for her dream business.
We have heard of people that started their businesses with money realised from NYSC days and are doing fine. So, if #19,800 could do how much more #30,000.
Don't despise the day of little beginning.

Why will she settle for that if there was better opportunity and should she be sleeping around instead of #30,0000 offer or may be you have a better option for her?


Instead of you advising her on how to make good saving and plan her way out of poverty you are talking of voting out bad politicians.

There is nothing you can do about our political class - bad governance has come to stay in Nigeria. You just have to take whatever you are giving and use your godly wisdom to multiply it.
You who have never been able to enter political class are talking of dislodging them by mere Facebook campaign.

Do you mean to stop northerners from voting for money sake?
Do you have the power to stop Lagosians from rendering their loyalty to Tinubu?

Get out of delusion of changing Nigeria while you are yet to change yourself.

ONLY A CHANGE MAN CAN CHANGE THE WORLD - Bishop Oyedepo.

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by safarigirl(f): 8:55am On Jan 11, 2018
brimoknight:


She should have rejected the offer or what?
Ogbeni, stop talking like someone who fell from a tree.
how can she reject the offer when comfort is something Nigerians love? Everybody just wants to be comfortable, nobody wants to be innovative, people will waste how many years in school and come out to do something they never had plans for

You should be concerned that a person who has no Teaching Certificate is a teacher, that is the beginning of the failure in our educational system

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by uyicos: 8:55am On Jan 11, 2018
Baawaa:

I am a female graduate of Tai-solarin University of Education, Ogun state with a BSc Certificate in Industrial Chemistry. The forlorn hope about the future started gripping me two months to graduation, driving me to a point of sickness. I came from a poor family not privileged to have the right connection for people like me to secure a job after graduation.

I got sick more and more listening to stories of frustration told by those who graduated before me. Many of them, out of frustration became apprentices to learn menial jobs. Many who languished under inclement weather of bad economy turned to prostitution to eke out life. Many ended up as mere servants in the homes of even the middle class, contending with attendant insults and low self-esteem. Even those who got supposedly good jobs lament bitterly about poor pay and treatment of ignominy by the agencies who recruited them. Majority of young graduates, I know are still in their parents homes, degenerating by the day. I had prayed every day to God to make my case different. Yes, there were few privileged graduates who earned good jobs, yet, they could be counted on fingertips, I had hoped to be one of them.

After graduation in 2014, I was posted to Kebbi State in 2015 for mandatory National Youths Service. I love Kebbi for the peace and tranquility it offered, coming from the southwestern part of Nigeria. Within a year of my service in Kebbi, I opened my mind to the possibility of becoming a rice merchant. This is because, Kebbi by the grace of the Anchor Borrowers Programme initiated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had become a leading state in the growth of rice. My plan then was to purchase rice in bags and transfer them down south to start a business as a graduate after my NYSC programme. It was a solid plan, which I would have initiated for others to follow, all things being equal

Bright as the idea of becoming a rice merchant looked, I had the excitement cut short by my Local Government Inspector in Kebbi, Alhaji Idris who raised the issue of huge capital as the first requirement. I had no idea of how to raise over a million naira to start the business. Yet, I was hopeful. After completing my NYSC year in Kebbi, I returned to Ibadan, Oyo State to start counting on mother luck to bail me out. Nothing was forth coming until six months after when my lovely father put a call across to me to intimate me of a programme initiated by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, called N-Power; offer of job opportunities to 200, 000 young Nigerian graduates.

I did not appreciate the initial efforts by my father to link me up with N-Power. I had always regarded any programme from the federal government in that line, a ruse. My father persisted and had one day referred me to a statement by the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo that the programme was real. Osinbajo, in that report, impressed it on young graduates not to waste the opportunity, being part of President Buhari’s passion to mop up unemployment under his government. Incidentally, he was the Anchor of N-Power.

Owing to ceaseless efforts from daddy, I registered on line for N-Power on the very closing day, just to make him happy! I never placed hope on the efforts because of cynicism and bias I had against anything from the government. But six months after I turned in the application, I heard the rumour that names of beneficiaries had been shortlisted and published. Truly, some of those who were shortlisted came back pumping hands and getting pats on the back. It never occurred to me to make an effort to check. But I did because my father again prodded me to do so. I made the list and it was incredible, very unbelievable! I did not depend on the usual connection or link to pull through. The opportunity came on merit, just like that. Awesome! That was on November 21, 2016. From that day, President Muhammadu Buhari who many love to castigate became my own hero!

I went for the mandatory screening exercise in December 2016 and was finally selected. I was posted to Ewekoro Local Government area in Ogun State and resumed as a teacher on January 9, 2017. I appreciate the privileged to serve in that capacity. Since joining the N-Power scheme, I noticed that the government has never failed in paying up as at when due, monthly. Now, I reckon with the power and importance of the scheme. I was able to acquire additional skills and knowledge on Social Development, while also gaining from the study habits of the people through the other initiatives the government provided.

I am prodded to write my experience with the N-Power initiative, first to appreciate the concern by the Buhari’s government had on the high level of unemployment in Nigeria and the need to solve the problem. Most importantly, I intend to use this write up to beg the government for more.

For me, N-Power is a good initiative designed to solve the riddle of life for 200, 000 young graduates and providing hope for them. I urged the government to offer permanent employment to all the beneficiaries while opening fresh avenues for more young graduates to benefit. I make this appeal because the programme ends this year. Then, it is out of place for the government to throw the beneficiaries into the labour market again, after investing in them.

I seize this opportunity to thank the government of Ogun State under the able leadership of Senator Ibikunle Amosun for being very accommodating and hospitable to benefiicaries of N-Power. His government has promised not to let the worthy beneficiaries down. We will continue to count on his promise too.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo deserves praise because of his steadfastness in making success out of N-Power. For me, he is the reason the programme was not hijacked by the very greedy and insatiable political leaders, either at the state level or federal.

I end by saying that no matter the machinations by the opponents against the government of President Buhari that means well for the youths, we the beneficiaries of N-Power will always appreciate it for what it stands for. I join others in praying for the continued success of the President and his government. 

God bless President Muhammadu Buhari!

God bless Nigeria

 

Omolayo Osunbayo (Miss)

N-Power beneficiary, Ewekoro Local Government Area,

Ogun State.
I don't like what am doing but Girl for real! Nigerian youth wake up from your slumber

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by brimoknight(m): 8:55am On Jan 11, 2018
dammyloye:
mumu, dumb mofos everywhere.......there is difference between Buhari and federal government, federal government made that empowerment program so as to reduce the issues of insufficient staffs in our education and healthcare system. (a case of scratch my back make I scratch ur back)

to the mumu people quoting me: let me ask you, with this npower program of 30k, did you help yourself or you helped the government who is suppose to employ adequate teachers and health workers.

our youths, always celebrating mediocrity

FTC and you are pouring out trash!
Waste of space. Abi you fell from a short tree?

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by bigdot1759(m): 8:56am On Jan 11, 2018
any body that can't save from 30k alawi den I doubt u will save anything if u have 100k job remember a drop of water can make a river.

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by engrchioce(m): 9:00am On Jan 11, 2018
B
BenzEne1:


Could you please leave that out. Go on hating just don't drag Islam into it. But na true nah,if a man stays in darkness for so long and was able to find his way he begins to see that there is no need for the light again. Wakeup..
Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by Tonytonic(m): 9:01am On Jan 11, 2018
Sorry to say u are so depressed in "sufferhead" that internship sounds like a job to u.u are even underemployed and u r dancing.u r not different from ur forefathers that danced into slavery and now any joke by a white man is racism to a black man.I am ashamed to share d same space with people like u.its a shame.u clearly have a disorder psychologically.

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by engrchioce(m): 9:04am On Jan 11, 2018
Nnamdiojukwu:
If there is any mumu here is you,how can you differentiate Buhari from federal government?
so bubu is federal govnmnt? dul*d.

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by Countermars: 9:09am On Jan 11, 2018
I think this post by John Zibiri is the perfect reply for you if you sharpen your understanding.

"I worked and lived in Abuja for 18 years. I ran my own private company from 2001 until 2014.

Two million of the likes of Buhari cannot change Nigeria.

�Everything is wrong with Nigeria.

�The Director won't give you contract except you pay up front .

�The banks won't give you loan except you concede a certain percentage.

�The man supervising the contract won't pass the job except you play ball.
�The clerk won't pass your file for payment except you rob his palm.
�The accounts department won't raise your payment voucher or cheque unless you see them. I can go on and on.

�The worst thing is that it has become a norm that nobody sees anything wrong with.
� If you think otherwise, they begin to think you are sick and not normal.
�If you try to stand in their way, you put your life at risk.

�If you get killed there is no justice system in place to seek redress and bring the perpetrators to book.

�The police is corrupt , the Judiciary is the same.
�Even the religious circle is not spared.

�Everything in Nigeria revolves around corruption.
�Nobody cares about anybody. No law and order.
� I looked from my left to right, everybody is only desperate about one thing "money".
�They will kill anybody and anything that stand between them and money.
�I am an electrical engineer with MNSE and COREN. The system don't care about my qualifications.

�Distribution and transmission jobs are given to alhajis, pastors, friends and relatives without any basic skills.
�I started asking myself, how do I convince my kids that education and hard work is rewarding?
�When fools, agberos and touts are running the country from the local govt to the Presidency.

�Is this what my four sons will also go through? In 2014 I decided I have had enough. I decided I was leaving. I migrated to Australia with my family.
�Don't put yourself in harm way for any reason.
�The problem of Nigeria is in the hands of Nigerians living in Nigeria.

�Try starting a gate house in your village, everybody wants to profiteer from it. The bricklayer, the carpenter, the mason and even your brother who claim to be supervising on your behalf.
�They are corrupt, morally bankrupt and selfish.
� Everybody there thinks about himself and nobody is thinking about Nigeria .

�You don't have to be the one to go there to change anything.
�Let those under the hammer start the revolution. I beg make you hear word.
�This post is gonna anger a lot of my followers. I'm still gonna post it anyway.

*Analogy of OPPRESSORS & FOOLISH CITIZENS.
*(A case study of Nigeria citizens & their elected oppressors):

� During the Soviet dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. He was a brutal dictator with mind of his own. On one fateful day, Stalin came to Politburo meeting with a live chicken. Standing in front of audience, He started to pluck the feathers of the live chicken off one by one.

�The chicken trembled in pain, blood tricking out of its pores. It gave out grievous cries, but Stalin being a cruel dictator continued without remorse plucking the feathers out until the chicken was completely naked. After which, he threw the chicken on the ground.

�The naked chicken was staggering in pain. Stalin goes into his pocket and from his pockets, he took out some chicken food and started to throw it at the poor & hapless creature.

�The poor chicken in pain started eating and Stalin started walking towards his seat. As he walked away, he kept dropping some feeds on the floor & the chicken followed him and sat feeding from his feet.

�Joseph Stalin then turned to members of his political party leadership.

�He said, "This chicken represents the people".

�"You must disempower them, brutalise them, beat them up, starve them and then leave them".

�"If you do this, go into your pocket & give them peanuts when they are in that helpless and desperate situation, they will blindly follow you for the rest of their life, worshiping you".

�"They will think you are a hero forever. They will forget that, you're responsible for their sorrowful situation in the first place."

� Breath taking, isn't it ?

�‍♂ Now! Take a look at all the people some Nigerians are busy defending on social media.

�Take a look at those they call their heroes.
�They are the same people who plunged Nigeria into the situation she is.
�They are the same people who are responsible for their predicaments.

�Did you see the numbers of people that throng to Saraki's house during this Christmas period to go and collect peanuts?

�Did you see the crowd that welcomed Ibori?

�Your guess is as good as mine. And the likes of many others, we all know about.

�Nigerians kill those they should defend and defend those they should kill! �

Pass to all your contacts & let your government know we know.

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Re: N-power:why President Muhammad Buhari Is My Hero,by Omolayo Osunbayo by Johncuppa(m): 9:09am On Jan 11, 2018
Hasheem1hash:

when you have no option and almost lost hope as a graduate, u dont have to calculate and disturb your peace with what the politician are earning coz u cant change their evil mindset. It obvious that common men like us can never change how the so-called law maker reason, we just have to grab whatever comes our way not because is the best but because thats the only option!...#stillhopeful!
Are you minding them. As if they have what it take to deal with the political class. Is it not the same NPOWER some graduates are still blaming government for , for not shortlisting their names.
And besides, couldn't the poor lady make it to her dream business through savings realised from the #30,000 or have better opportunity through networking from the mere NPOWER job.

You never can tell that might be all she needed in life to break forth. Nigerians are despising the days of little beginning and our problems are measuring up on a daily basis.
They will prefer to be complaining of unemployment rather than take the available and turn it to desirable.

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