₦airaland Forum

Who is able to read all, should please summarize it.

Digitalfinga:
NATIONWIDE NPOWER VOLUNTEERS,
NIGERIA,
APRIL 1, 2018.
YOUR EXCELLENCY,
PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI,
COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES,
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA,
ABUJA,
NIGERIA.
Dear Sir,
PLEA FOR PERMANENT STATUS FOR N-POWER BENEFICIARIES
We, the representatives of all N-Power volunteers from the thirty six states of the federation including Abuja, humbly write to your venerated office for our absoption into the permanent civil service.
Permit us at this juncture to acknowledge the efforts of your government in creating an environment of equal opportunities and equitable atmosphere for all, without any bias of whatsoever form. Most importantly sir, we wish to register our utmost and sincere appreciations to your administration for the new breeze of hopes and aspirations injected into a long suffering and neglected youths, viable segment of the masses, through the Social Investment Programmes (SIP).
Sir, it is countless to still say your initiative has brought back the lost glory through the Social Investment Programmes which thousands of Nigerians from all brackets of ages are currently benefiting from and which gives every Nigerian a true sense of belonging without any traceable iota of religious, tribal and political undertone. This is undeniably a landmark in the history of this nation that has proven to be truly designed for the poor and neglected masses, without any form of manipulations.
As a sub-unit of the Social Investment Programmes, the Npower Initiative Scheme has come as a succor to millions of young Nigerians, graduates and non graduates, skilled and unskilled, to putting smiles on our faces and giving us hopes of a better Nigeria of equal opportunities and promising days ahead.
In view of the aforementioned, we hereby use this avenue to register our unreserved appreciations. We, the entire elite Nigerian youths, under the aegis of The Nationwide N-Power Volunteers from the thirty six states of the federation and FCT, shall ever remain grateful to the ingenious mind behind the Npower Initiative Scheme and other sister programmes under the umbrella of the Social Investment Programmes (SIP).
Dear sir, the intervention of the programme has been a blessing to many Nigerians, and for the umpteenth time, we wish to express our profound gratitude for giving ordinary and teaming Nigerian youths such rare opportunities to contributing our own quota to the developmental process of our great country under your able leadership. Therefore, Praising you for such privileges can never be overemphasized.
The truth is that N-Power Initiative Scheme (NIS), like other Social Investment Programmes (SIP), has emerged as a palliative and temporary measure to address the alarming effects of mass unemployment of young graduates of our Nation. We fully acknowledge the fact that the scheme was designed to be run for a period of twenty four months (two years).
All the above mentioned are not deniable and we do not intend to dispute any of them. But your Excellency, with due respect to your esteemed office and your revered personality, permit us to make our case from the foregoing.
Statistically, 75% of this current batch of the scheme are N-teach volunteers who are engaged in various public schools as teaching staff. Every new experience we come across is basically and directly related to the teaching profession we have been trained for. This is what goes on in other tiers of the scheme namely N-Agro and N-Health. Besides, most of us basically live on the stipends paid to us, mainly for our transportations to and from our respective places of primary assignment, our feedings and other basic necessities we need to acquire. It is practically impossible for us to still have a saving out of the stipends, most especially in this economic reality where the price of goods and services have skyrocketed in the market; not even minding some other inevitable domestic responsibilities to cater for.
Your Excellency Sir, we are not trying to put to doubt the goodwill in the concept of the scheme and its already visible and felt effects across board, but we only wish to draw your attention to other salient realities we are confronted with, and make possible suggestions for eventual considerations.
We think there is an absolute need for your administration to look into the functionality of an unemployment eradicating mechanism that takes into consideration a lasting employability and self-reliance measures and turn the large number of unemployed graduates into a force of development in the short and long terms by engaging them permanently.
We suggest there should be well synergized plans between the federal and state governments to integrate and absorb these trained and well equipped and dedicated young graduates into a workable system where they can fully and profitably utilize and put into practice all the skills they have acquired over time. That will further enhance and justify the very purpose of implementation of the scheme: reducing youth unemployment and poverty in the society.
Abandoning us back to the streets where we were once picked from to infuse our creative energetic abilities might have detrimental effects on our collective well being as a nation.
Already, the scheme has made and still making tremendous and incommensurable landmark achievements, going by the uncountable daily success stories that are flooding the social media sphere, and more practically, the real impacts it has brought to individuals at different levels in the society, both the direct beneficiaries of the scheme, and the anomalies it was meant to correct. Permit us to redundantly delve a little on this.
The Educational Sector
This sector has highly been boosted by the presence of volunteers in schools. The perennial lack of teachers in our educational system has been filled with well trained, youthful, energetic and passionate N-teach beneficiaries. Subjects which remained for years untaught are now being taught efficiently. Classrooms abandoned by the scanty number of teachers are all given adequate monitoring. Pupils and students half baked or previously not even taught are being handled with the most modern educational teaching and learning methods. Public schools have gained back their lost glory. Learners are happy to go back to public schools. The zeal of old days are being highly rekindled. The programme has really made progress in this sector with the presence of over 100,000 N-teach volunteers.
The Agricultural Sector
This sector determines the strength and the weakness of our micro and macro economy. For long, there has been a serious gap of communication between government policies and agricultural intervention programmes which had led to a highly volatile sector in term of poor productivity and pauperisation of those involved in the agro business. The recent deployment of Npower volunteers as extension agents, all over the nation, to directly conduct assessments of farming activities and to carry on direct sensitisation of farmers at all stages, has brought up the level of production and has also equipped the farmers with better and greater techniques to farming, conservation and sales for greater profitability. The volunteers go miles deep in the farmlands to meet and have first hand assessments of the challenges being faced in the regions and report back to the experts at the tail end of the administration for resolutions. Farmers are now happy and soon with the abundant yield, everybody will be able to afford more sufficient and qualitative food.
The Health Sector
The recent deployment of Npower volunteers as assistants to the health workers has tremendously given a level of relief to the existing workers who almost have no shift period due to lack of staffs. The primary health care centres dispersed in remote areas in rural communities and who only set eyes on health workers once in a week are now full of excitement with volunteers under the Npower programme deployed to their localities to have daily records and health assessments of the host communities. This has reduced avoidable mortalities of patients in rural areas and crowded general hospitals. As a results of this, self medication has drastically reduced due to the presence and services of Npower volunteers available at all times.
Our Demands
Mr President, it is with a heart full of hope that we bring our plight to you. It might mean little or nothing to you, but it means everything to us as unemployed graduates desirous to remain relevant and productive in a system that had hitherto no proper plans for youths and which also neglected their interests for so long.
The N-Power Initiative Scheme has successfully extracted from the limbo of the streets hundreds of thousands of graduate youths who could not find a job after many years of schooling and going through all processes of employability in our dear country. Many of us who lost faith in the system have joined the underworld caucuses while we were groping for possible sustainable jobs.
Your Excellency, the bitter truth is the knowledge of going back to the streets with little or nothing at the expiration of the scheme. The 24 months duration of the programme is coming to an end as a frightening nightmare to us. Are we going back to the streets where we were fetched from after dedicated and creative works at our various places of assignment? What happens to us after the scheme and what shall be our fate?
Our sincere plea to this administration is to open a window for consideration of absorbing us permanently into the civil service, both at the federal and state levels. This can be achieved by putting in place a mechanism that shall consider the conditions and modus operandi of such exercise, taking into consideration our attendance at places of work, our commitment and dedication to work, and the impacts laid in our immediate environment under the volunteering job.
We are not unaware of the many challenges faced by this regime most especially that it is trying to correct the many abnormalities engendered by previous and successive administrations, but we think the permanent engagement of valiant young graduates trained and equipped with adequate skills should also not be undermined in this era where we know youths are the driving forces behind any prosperous nation. 200, 000 young graduates, if well channelled and properly catered for can immensely revolutionalize all sectors of the economy. But the reverse might be the case if there is no proper arrangements from the government. Youths build nations, and youths also destroy nations.
You have given us the opportunity to serve our communities and by extension our nation through this scheme, we have made noticeable impacts. We appreciate you and your government for such opportunity. But the sustenability of such impacts can only be achieved if we are permanently engaged. This is a candid and humble invitation to you Sir, to look into the possibility of permanently absorbing us into the civil service for efficient productivity. We can not afford to go back to the streets.
Thanks your Excellency, for the opportunity of the scheme,
Thanks for also listening to our plights,
Thanks for your prompt and favourable actions in that regards .
God bless President Muhammad Buhari,
God bless Prof. Yemi Osinbajo,
God bless your administration,
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Yours in one Nigeria,
Concerned Nationwide Npower Volunteers from the 36 states of the federation and FCT.
nationwidenpowervolunteers@gmail.com
Cc:
- Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo
- The Nigerian Senate
- The National House of Representatives
- The National Executive Council,
- Nigerian Governors Forum
- Nigerian Traditional Rulers
- National Union of Teachers
- National Labour Congress
- The Federal Ministry of Education
- The Federal Ministry of Health
- The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
- Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity
- Federal Ministry of Special Duties
- Federal Ministry of Youth Development
- Secretary To The Government of the Federation
- Trade Union Congress
- The Press
- Distinguished Stakeholders

barajo1:
Who is able to read all, should please summarize it.

If you cannot, within 30 secs, scan through this and pick out the main points, your education is worthless

Let me help you, the aim of the article is what FG should do, scan through the upper parts which are mainly the benefits of npower (we all know). Go down to where you see "Demands", that's where you get the koko and move on.

That shouldn't take 30 secs

sotall:
Give them an inch..they will ask for a mile.


If the federal government absorb all volunteers into the civil service, very soon there will be no room to take in future volunteers.

don't mind them. They got opportunity, but don't want others to. Blackman mentality.

GavelSlam:
Nonsense request.

The scheme was meant to give you a platform through which you can :

Learn a skill

Gain some dignity and confidence

Receive some allowance whilst you pursue your other vocational interests.

It is meant to be temporary and a production line as other graduates after you are meant to benefit.
What should be done with those after You?

Try and be independent and stop waiting for the nation to provide work for you.

the OP shocked all of us.

Calyb:
I have come across this kind of human being several times. Very myopic

Myopic because I don't share the same opinion? Respect yourself, this is a public forum

op, your head is paining you, where you want make fg see money pay una if dem take just 300000 of you and pays average of 150k as salary as una be graduate? or u want make una alone dey enjoy when next regime go bring him own in-power abi na up-power?
npower is not sustainable for the fg, and it's not good for the youth too, go figure how to make it abeg.

That shiit is too long na. Remember Buhari no go school.

This is what is called Suffer Head,...... please how much in N-Power paying? May God help us in this country, we're practically turning to slavesee in our country.

deepwater:
Kai
It's like op has joined the nunu gang, we global.
See how he is giving buhari and APC accolades

Op just ahead bashing previous administration with style, let me tell you young man buhari did nothing for you by giving you npower. He oy succeeded In breaking your hustling spirit further.

You have appeared more weak, desperate and vulnerable than you were before the start of npower in your life.

They have made you believe you deserve 1k per day from the government after your sweat in school to be a graduate. You have been recruited into the legion of educated almajiris - swear you won't vote for buhari next election.

The fighting spirit in you has been killed the day your applied for npower, because if the Nigerian youths were any wiser they would have kicked against the npower from the beginning. Tell me one politician or statesman that has his wards in this programme ? Or are they all employed ?

If npower has impacted anything into you, you won't be afraid of returning to the streets after 24months of labour in other words the government wasted 24months of life from the pool of able-bodied youth. Multiply this by the number of youths affected and let's see the man hour down we gave lost as a nation. If this lots were used by CCECC the lagos badagry expressway would be completed in 1month.

Now you want to go into civil service to do what exactly?
Eating if the government and waiting for salary and productivity allowances from the national treasury without any significant contribution to the country ?

Was it not this country that buhari cancelled federal jobs that were given to the Nigerian youths by the former administration immediately he assumed office on the grounds that they were fraudulently employed ?
Was it not in this country the last nnpc recruitment was suspended because only those who had passed on merit was invited by Phillips consulting for interview and your fellow almajiris were not invited hence your president and minister of petroleum protracted the recruitment process till further notice? What did u do in your singular act about it?

Your know what, e go reach everybody one by one

Yours is about to hit you.

They will absorb cows and almajiris into the civil service and leave you high and dry because you are from the south.

When you get back to the street, your eye go clear, the way they used oby ezekwesili and dumped her on the street and made her almajiri counterpart D.G of NPA....it was like a Nigerian film and nobody fit cough self ....that's why I like buhari, him sabi flog people back into line

I bet u , u didn't read this part

..."Besides, most of us basically live on the stipends paid to us, mainly for our transportations to and from our respective places of primary assignment, our feedings and other basic necessities we need to acquire. It is practically impossible for us to still have a saving out of the stipends, most especially in this economic reality where the price of goods and services have skyrocketed in the market; not even minding some other inevitable domestic responsibilities to cater for."



smh, the op is confused , the truth is staring at him in the face but he is just a booty licker !

our youth should wake up and tell themselves the truth. N-power is not the solution to unemployment .

Digitalfinga
Bjayx
Deepwater

This Npower scheme was not organized right from the onset and can be seen as mere patch work to the terrible situation of youth unemployment. Bill Gates rightly pointed at the need for government to invest more in education and healthcare. The Npower scheme properly targetted these areas of deficiencies. Where government has failed is in not building a framework to ensure that adequate funding for the scheme is available and also the absorption of quality graduates on completion of the initial 2 years.

Government should have implemented the oronsanya report. As the former head of civil service of the federation, Oronsanya conducted research and found that several MDA'S had replication of jobs and services so he wrote a report to the president (Yaradua) advising that such mda's be merged together to save the government of much needed funds. This makes sense as why should the government waste money on individuals who aren't adding any benefit to the public when our schools and hospital lack much needed staff.

Government should have increased tax collection on the rich. Nigeria is a highly unequal country. Recently it was revealed that our "honourable" minister of communications, Barrister Adebayo Shittu, purchased 12 houses and 25 cars over the period of the last 3 years. According to our extant laws, the money he used to purchase these items was legally earned by him as an "honourable" minister of the federal republic of Nigeria. Such behavior is prevalent across all sectors of government. Barr. Shittu may not be found guilty for fraud in a court of law but he can be taxed heavily to ensure Nigeria recovers our lost wealth. Such funds can be used to refurbish our public schools and also employ youths into permanent positions with liveable salaries.

Government should maintain the same tarriffs rate with our neighboring countries. Why should vehicles be cheaper in Benin Republic than in Nigeria? Why should an airline ticket be cheaper in Ghana than over here in Nigeria? Government should focus it's revenue generation on the rich in our society and not on the struggling people. The former CBN boss, SLS, said that 5 percent of Nigerians account for 90 of bank deposits in Nigeria. This 5 percent of people should also be the sole focus of tax increases in the country. After all,
to he who much is given, much is expected. Middle income and low income people do businesses to survive so the more money in their pockets would enable them to employ more unemployed youths.

Finally, government should focus squarely on improving of macro-economy to ensure price stability both in the dollar rate and market prices of goods and services.

Is this too much to ask for?

Digitalfinga:
NATIONWIDE NPOWER VOLUNTEERS,
NIGERIA,
APRIL 1, 2018.
YOUR EXCELLENCY,
PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI,
COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES,
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA,
ABUJA,
NIGERIA.
Dear Sir,
PLEA FOR PERMANENT STATUS FOR N-POWER BENEFICIARIES
We, the representatives of all N-Power volunteers from the thirty six states of the federation including Abuja, humbly write to your venerated office for our absoption into the permanent civil service.
Permit us at this juncture to acknowledge the efforts of your government in creating an environment of equal opportunities and equitable atmosphere for all, without any bias of whatsoever form. Most importantly sir, we wish to register our utmost and sincere appreciations to your administration for the new breeze of hopes and aspirations injected into a long suffering and neglected youths, viable segment of the masses, through the Social Investment Programmes (SIP).
Sir, it is countless to still say your initiative has brought back the lost glory through the Social Investment Programmes which thousands of Nigerians from all brackets of ages are currently benefiting from and which gives every Nigerian a true sense of belonging without any traceable iota of religious, tribal and political undertone. This is undeniably a landmark in the history of this nation that has proven to be truly designed for the poor and neglected masses, without any form of manipulations.
As a sub-unit of the Social Investment Programmes, the Npower Initiative Scheme has come as a succor to millions of young Nigerians, graduates and non graduates, skilled and unskilled, to putting smiles on our faces and giving us hopes of a better Nigeria of equal opportunities and promising days ahead.
In view of the aforementioned, we hereby use this avenue to register our unreserved appreciations. We, the entire elite Nigerian youths, under the aegis of The Nationwide N-Power Volunteers from the thirty six states of the federation and FCT, shall ever remain grateful to the ingenious mind behind the Npower Initiative Scheme and other sister programmes under the umbrella of the Social Investment Programmes (SIP).
Dear sir, the intervention of the programme has been a blessing to many Nigerians, and for the umpteenth time, we wish to express our profound gratitude for giving ordinary and teaming Nigerian youths such rare opportunities to contributing our own quota to the developmental process of our great country under your able leadership. Therefore, Praising you for such privileges can never be overemphasized.
The truth is that N-Power Initiative Scheme (NIS), like other Social Investment Programmes (SIP), has emerged as a palliative and temporary measure to address the alarming effects of mass unemployment of young graduates of our Nation. We fully acknowledge the fact that the scheme was designed to be run for a period of twenty four months (two years).
All the above mentioned are not deniable and we do not intend to dispute any of them. But your Excellency, with due respect to your esteemed office and your revered personality, permit us to make our case from the foregoing.
Statistically, 75% of this current batch of the scheme are N-teach volunteers who are engaged in various public schools as teaching staff. Every new experience we come across is basically and directly related to the teaching profession we have been trained for. This is what goes on in other tiers of the scheme namely N-Agro and N-Health. Besides, most of us basically live on the stipends paid to us, mainly for our transportations to and from our respective places of primary assignment, our feedings and other basic necessities we need to acquire. It is practically impossible for us to still have a saving out of the stipends, most especially in this economic reality where the price of goods and services have skyrocketed in the market; not even minding some other inevitable domestic responsibilities to cater for.
Your Excellency Sir, we are not trying to put to doubt the goodwill in the concept of the scheme and its already visible and felt effects across board, but we only wish to draw your attention to other salient realities we are confronted with, and make possible suggestions for eventual considerations.
We think there is an absolute need for your administration to look into the functionality of an unemployment eradicating mechanism that takes into consideration a lasting employability and self-reliance measures and turn the large number of unemployed graduates into a force of development in the short and long terms by engaging them permanently.
We suggest there should be well synergized plans between the federal and state governments to integrate and absorb these trained and well equipped and dedicated young graduates into a workable system where they can fully and profitably utilize and put into practice all the skills they have acquired over time. That will further enhance and justify the very purpose of implementation of the scheme: reducing youth unemployment and poverty in the society.
Abandoning us back to the streets where we were once picked from to infuse our creative energetic abilities might have detrimental effects on our collective well being as a nation.
Already, the scheme has made and still making tremendous and incommensurable landmark achievements, going by the uncountable daily success stories that are flooding the social media sphere, and more practically, the real impacts it has brought to individuals at different levels in the society, both the direct beneficiaries of the scheme, and the anomalies it was meant to correct. Permit us to redundantly delve a little on this.
The Educational Sector
This sector has highly been boosted by the presence of volunteers in schools. The perennial lack of teachers in our educational system has been filled with well trained, youthful, energetic and passionate N-teach beneficiaries. Subjects which remained for years untaught are now being taught efficiently. Classrooms abandoned by the scanty number of teachers are all given adequate monitoring. Pupils and students half baked or previously not even taught are being handled with the most modern educational teaching and learning methods. Public schools have gained back their lost glory. Learners are happy to go back to public schools. The zeal of old days are being highly rekindled. The programme has really made progress in this sector with the presence of over 100,000 N-teach volunteers.
The Agricultural Sector
This sector determines the strength and the weakness of our micro and macro economy. For long, there has been a serious gap of communication between government policies and agricultural intervention programmes which had led to a highly volatile sector in term of poor productivity and pauperisation of those involved in the agro business. The recent deployment of Npower volunteers as extension agents, all over the nation, to directly conduct assessments of farming activities and to carry on direct sensitisation of farmers at all stages, has brought up the level of production and has also equipped the farmers with better and greater techniques to farming, conservation and sales for greater profitability. The volunteers go miles deep in the farmlands to meet and have first hand assessments of the challenges being faced in the regions and report back to the experts at the tail end of the administration for resolutions. Farmers are now happy and soon with the abundant yield, everybody will be able to afford more sufficient and qualitative food.
The Health Sector
The recent deployment of Npower volunteers as assistants to the health workers has tremendously given a level of relief to the existing workers who almost have no shift period due to lack of staffs. The primary health care centres dispersed in remote areas in rural communities and who only set eyes on health workers once in a week are now full of excitement with volunteers under the Npower programme deployed to their localities to have daily records and health assessments of the host communities. This has reduced avoidable mortalities of patients in rural areas and crowded general hospitals. As a results of this, self medication has drastically reduced due to the presence and services of Npower volunteers available at all times.
Our Demands
Mr President, it is with a heart full of hope that we bring our plight to you. It might mean little or nothing to you, but it means everything to us as unemployed graduates desirous to remain relevant and productive in a system that had hitherto no proper plans for youths and which also neglected their interests for so long.
The N-Power Initiative Scheme has successfully extracted from the limbo of the streets hundreds of thousands of graduate youths who could not find a job after many years of schooling and going through all processes of employability in our dear country. Many of us who lost faith in the system have joined the underworld caucuses while we were groping for possible sustainable jobs.
Your Excellency, the bitter truth is the knowledge of going back to the streets with little or nothing at the expiration of the scheme. The 24 months duration of the programme is coming to an end as a frightening nightmare to us. Are we going back to the streets where we were fetched from after dedicated and creative works at our various places of assignment? What happens to us after the scheme and what shall be our fate?
Our sincere plea to this administration is to open a window for consideration of absorbing us permanently into the civil service, both at the federal and state levels. This can be achieved by putting in place a mechanism that shall consider the conditions and modus operandi of such exercise, taking into consideration our attendance at places of work, our commitment and dedication to work, and the impacts laid in our immediate environment under the volunteering job.
We are not unaware of the many challenges faced by this regime most especially that it is trying to correct the many abnormalities engendered by previous and successive administrations, but we think the permanent engagement of valiant young graduates trained and equipped with adequate skills should also not be undermined in this era where we know youths are the driving forces behind any prosperous nation. 200, 000 young graduates, if well channelled and properly catered for can immensely revolutionalize all sectors of the economy. But the reverse might be the case if there is no proper arrangements from the government. Youths build nations, and youths also destroy nations.
You have given us the opportunity to serve our communities and by extension our nation through this scheme, we have made noticeable impacts. We appreciate you and your government for such opportunity. But the sustenability of such impacts can only be achieved if we are permanently engaged. This is a candid and humble invitation to you Sir, to look into the possibility of permanently absorbing us into the civil service for efficient productivity. We can not afford to go back to the streets.
Thanks your Excellency, for the opportunity of the scheme,
Thanks for also listening to our plights,
Thanks for your prompt and favourable actions in that regards .
God bless President Muhammad Buhari,
God bless Prof. Yemi Osinbajo,
God bless your administration,
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Yours in one Nigeria,
Concerned Nationwide Npower Volunteers from the 36 states of the federation and FCT.
nationwidenpowervolunteers@gmail.com
Cc:
- Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo
- The Nigerian Senate
- The National House of Representatives
- The National Executive Council,
- Nigerian Governors Forum
- Nigerian Traditional Rulers
- National Union of Teachers
- National Labour Congress
- The Federal Ministry of Education
- The Federal Ministry of Health
- The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
- Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity
- Federal Ministry of Special Duties
- Federal Ministry of Youth Development
- Secretary To The Government of the Federation
- Trade Union Congress
- The Press
- Distinguished Stakeholders

unless you will vote for buhari

Digitalfinga:
NATIONWIDE NPOWER VOLUNTEERS,
NIGERIA,
APRIL 1, 2018.
YOUR EXCELLENCY,
PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI,
COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES,
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA,
ABUJA,
NIGERIA.
Dear Sir,
PLEA FOR PERMANENT STATUS FOR N-POWER BENEFICIARIES
We, the representatives of all N-Power volunteers from the thirty six states of the federation including Abuja, humbly write to your venerated office for our absoption into the permanent civil service.
Permit us at this juncture to acknowledge the efforts of your government in creating an environment of equal opportunities and equitable atmosphere for all, without any bias of whatsoever form. Most importantly sir, we wish to register our utmost and sincere appreciations to your administration for the new breeze of hopes and aspirations injected into a long suffering and neglected youths, viable segment of the masses, through the Social Investment Programmes (SIP).
Sir, it is countless to still say your initiative has brought back the lost glory through the Social Investment Programmes which thousands of Nigerians from all brackets of ages are currently benefiting from and which gives every Nigerian a true sense of belonging without any traceable iota of religious, tribal and political undertone. This is undeniably a landmark in the history of this nation that has proven to be truly designed for the poor and neglected masses, without any form of manipulations.
As a sub-unit of the Social Investment Programmes, the Npower Initiative Scheme has come as a succor to millions of young Nigerians, graduates and non graduates, skilled and unskilled, to putting smiles on our faces and giving us hopes of a better Nigeria of equal opportunities and promising days ahead.
In view of the aforementioned, we hereby use this avenue to register our unreserved appreciations. We, the entire elite Nigerian youths, under the aegis of The Nationwide N-Power Volunteers from the thirty six states of the federation and FCT, shall ever remain grateful to the ingenious mind behind the Npower Initiative Scheme and other sister programmes under the umbrella of the Social Investment Programmes (SIP).
Dear sir, the intervention of the programme has been a blessing to many Nigerians, and for the umpteenth time, we wish to express our profound gratitude for giving ordinary and teaming Nigerian youths such rare opportunities to contributing our own quota to the developmental process of our great country under your able leadership. Therefore, Praising you for such privileges can never be overemphasized.
The truth is that N-Power Initiative Scheme (NIS), like other Social Investment Programmes (SIP), has emerged as a palliative and temporary measure to address the alarming effects of mass unemployment of young graduates of our Nation. We fully acknowledge the fact that the scheme was designed to be run for a period of twenty four months (two years).
All the above mentioned are not deniable and we do not intend to dispute any of them. But your Excellency, with due respect to your esteemed office and your revered personality, permit us to make our case from the foregoing.
Statistically, 75% of this current batch of the scheme are N-teach volunteers who are engaged in various public schools as teaching staff. Every new experience we come across is basically and directly related to the teaching profession we have been trained for. This is what goes on in other tiers of the scheme namely N-Agro and N-Health. Besides, most of us basically live on the stipends paid to us, mainly for our transportations to and from our respective places of primary assignment, our feedings and other basic necessities we need to acquire. It is practically impossible for us to still have a saving out of the stipends, most especially in this economic reality where the price of goods and services have skyrocketed in the market; not even minding some other inevitable domestic responsibilities to cater for.
Your Excellency Sir, we are not trying to put to doubt the goodwill in the concept of the scheme and its already visible and felt effects across board, but we only wish to draw your attention to other salient realities we are confronted with, and make possible suggestions for eventual considerations.
We think there is an absolute need for your administration to look into the functionality of an unemployment eradicating mechanism that takes into consideration a lasting employability and self-reliance measures and turn the large number of unemployed graduates into a force of development in the short and long terms by engaging them permanently.
We suggest there should be well synergized plans between the federal and state governments to integrate and absorb these trained and well equipped and dedicated young graduates into a workable system where they can fully and profitably utilize and put into practice all the skills they have acquired over time. That will further enhance and justify the very purpose of implementation of the scheme: reducing youth unemployment and poverty in the society.
Abandoning us back to the streets where we were once picked from to infuse our creative energetic abilities might have detrimental effects on our collective well being as a nation.
Already, the scheme has made and still making tremendous and incommensurable landmark achievements, going by the uncountable daily success stories that are flooding the social media sphere, and more practically, the real impacts it has brought to individuals at different levels in the society, both the direct beneficiaries of the scheme, and the anomalies it was meant to correct. Permit us to redundantly delve a little on this.
The Educational Sector
This sector has highly been boosted by the presence of volunteers in schools. The perennial lack of teachers in our educational system has been filled with well trained, youthful, energetic and passionate N-teach beneficiaries. Subjects which remained for years untaught are now being taught efficiently. Classrooms abandoned by the scanty number of teachers are all given adequate monitoring. Pupils and students half baked or previously not even taught are being handled with the most modern educational teaching and learning methods. Public schools have gained back their lost glory. Learners are happy to go back to public schools. The zeal of old days are being highly rekindled. The programme has really made progress in this sector with the presence of over 100,000 N-teach volunteers.
The Agricultural Sector
This sector determines the strength and the weakness of our micro and macro economy. For long, there has been a serious gap of communication between government policies and agricultural intervention programmes which had led to a highly volatile sector in term of poor productivity and pauperisation of those involved in the agro business. The recent deployment of Npower volunteers as extension agents, all over the nation, to directly conduct assessments of farming activities and to carry on direct sensitisation of farmers at all stages, has brought up the level of production and has also equipped the farmers with better and greater techniques to farming, conservation and sales for greater profitability. The volunteers go miles deep in the farmlands to meet and have first hand assessments of the challenges being faced in the regions and report back to the experts at the tail end of the administration for resolutions. Farmers are now happy and soon with the abundant yield, everybody will be able to afford more sufficient and qualitative food.
The Health Sector
The recent deployment of Npower volunteers as assistants to the health workers has tremendously given a level of relief to the existing workers who almost have no shift period due to lack of staffs. The primary health care centres dispersed in remote areas in rural communities and who only set eyes on health workers once in a week are now full of excitement with volunteers under the Npower programme deployed to their localities to have daily records and health assessments of the host communities. This has reduced avoidable mortalities of patients in rural areas and crowded general hospitals. As a results of this, self medication has drastically reduced due to the presence and services of Npower volunteers available at all times.
Our Demands
Mr President, it is with a heart full of hope that we bring our plight to you. It might mean little or nothing to you, but it means everything to us as unemployed graduates desirous to remain relevant and productive in a system that had hitherto no proper plans for youths and which also neglected their interests for so long.
The N-Power Initiative Scheme has successfully extracted from the limbo of the streets hundreds of thousands of graduate youths who could not find a job after many years of schooling and going through all processes of employability in our dear country. Many of us who lost faith in the system have joined the underworld caucuses while we were groping for possible sustainable jobs.
Your Excellency, the bitter truth is the knowledge of going back to the streets with little or nothing at the expiration of the scheme. The 24 months duration of the programme is coming to an end as a frightening nightmare to us. Are we going back to the streets where we were fetched from after dedicated and creative works at our various places of assignment? What happens to us after the scheme and what shall be our fate?
Our sincere plea to this administration is to open a window for consideration of absorbing us permanently into the civil service, both at the federal and state levels. This can be achieved by putting in place a mechanism that shall consider the conditions and modus operandi of such exercise, taking into consideration our attendance at places of work, our commitment and dedication to work, and the impacts laid in our immediate environment under the volunteering job.
We are not unaware of the many challenges faced by this regime most especially that it is trying to correct the many abnormalities engendered by previous and successive administrations, but we think the permanent engagement of valiant young graduates trained and equipped with adequate skills should also not be undermined in this era where we know youths are the driving forces behind any prosperous nation. 200, 000 young graduates, if well channelled and properly catered for can immensely revolutionalize all sectors of the economy. But the reverse might be the case if there is no proper arrangements from the government. Youths build nations, and youths also destroy nations.
You have given us the opportunity to serve our communities and by extension our nation through this scheme, we have made noticeable impacts. We appreciate you and your government for such opportunity. But the sustenability of such impacts can only be achieved if we are permanently engaged. This is a candid and humble invitation to you Sir, to look into the possibility of permanently absorbing us into the civil service for efficient productivity. We can not afford to go back to the streets.
Thanks your Excellency, for the opportunity of the scheme,
Thanks for also listening to our plights,
Thanks for your prompt and favourable actions in that regards .
God bless President Muhammad Buhari,
God bless Prof. Yemi Osinbajo,
God bless your administration,
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Yours in one Nigeria,
Concerned Nationwide Npower Volunteers from the 36 states of the federation and FCT.
nationwidenpowervolunteers@gmail.com
Cc:
- Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo
- The Nigerian Senate
- The National House of Representatives
- The National Executive Council,
- Nigerian Governors Forum
- Nigerian Traditional Rulers
- National Union of Teachers
- National Labour Congress
- The Federal Ministry of Education
- The Federal Ministry of Health
- The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
- Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity
- Federal Ministry of Special Duties
- Federal Ministry of Youth Development
- Secretary To The Government of the Federation
- Trade Union Congress
- The Press
- Distinguished Stakeholders

You for just buy empty book put everything inside send am go meet una mumu president

This country continues to baffle me, why do we all try to redesign a system already initiated to serve a purpose. We all continue to abuse and chastise our leaders not knowing they aren't foreign individuals but Nigerians too like us. We are just too greedy and self centered in this country, the same way one person will rep a constituency for more than a decade not wanting to shift ground for a new person. If you guys are really that patriotic and ready to work, why not clamor for permanency during Nysc while being posted to Borno

Instead of thinking on how to exit the prog. Before it's expiration by getting something doing personally, you are writing epistle to a man who himself is another matter entirely.

Let's live and let others live. You have been chosen for two years. By December, if you have not yet figure out your bearing, then I guess no palliative can help you. Other people dey Queue abeg.

deepwater:
Kai
It's like op has joined the nunu gang, we global.
See how he is giving buhari and APC accolades[/b]

Op just ahead bashing previous administration with style, let me tell you young man buhari did nothing for you by giving you npower. He oy succeeded In breaking your hustling spirit further.

You have appeared more weak, desperate and vulnerable than you were before the start of npower in your life.

They have made you believe you deserve 1k per day from the government after your sweat in school to be a graduate. You have been recruited into the legion of educated almajiris - swear you won't vote for buhari next election.

The fighting spirit in you has been killed the day your applied for npower, because if the Nigerian youths were any wiser they would have kicked against the npower from the beginning. Tell me one politician or statesman that has his wards in this programme ? Or are they all employed ?

If npower has impacted anything into you, you won't be afraid of returning to the streets after 24months of labour in other words the government wasted 24months of life from the pool of able-bodied youth. Multiply this by the number of youths affected and let's see the man hour down we gave lost as a nation. If this lots were used by CCECC the lagos badagry expressway would be completed in 1month.

Now you want to go into civil service to do what exactly?
Eating if the government and waiting for salary and productivity allowances from the national treasury without any significant contribution to the country ?

Was it not this country that buhari cancelled federal jobs that were given to the Nigerian youths by the former administration immediately he assumed office on the grounds that they were fraudulently employed ?
Was it not in this country the last nnpc recruitment was suspended because only those who had passed on merit was invited by Phillips consulting for interview and your fellow almajiris were not invited hence your president and minister of petroleum protracted the recruitment process till further notice? What did u do in your singular act about it?

Your know what, e go reach everybody one by one

Yours is about to hit you.

They will absorb cows and almajiris into the civil service and leave you high and dry because you are from the south.

When you get back to the street, your eye go clear, the way they used oby ezekwesili and dumped her on the street and made her almajiri counterpart D.G of NPA....it was like a Nigerian film and nobody fit cough self ....that's why I like buhari, him sabi flog people back into line

Stop crying.

Not a bad request to make even those coming behind in this programme will still make this request at the end of their two years, so, y criticizing some one for making a request so dearing to him. He has just express the fear of so many Npower beneficiaries who hitherto were private school teachers being paid a meagre amount of 15 to 20 000 naira along with the insult that comes with it. What happens to the knowledge acquired from their teaching in government schools for these two years after the expiration of the programme? Is it for them to go back to the private schools to start earning 20k? Nobody wants to go back to his or her vomits, hence you don't blame the Op for this request.. Our schools lack teachers and that is the truth, so it isn't a bad idea if dedicated ones amongst them are given a permanent status as a teacher. Everybody cannot open schools after this two years, hence the need for government to look into their requests. It is just an appeal and the oncoming ones should not be afraid, cos before the expiration of their two years programme, so many teachers would have retired nation wide,there by giving them rooms to make their own request too. May God bless us all amen!

This is rubbish, if they take you in and make you permanent staffs, will they continue with the 30k pay or absorb you into the federal civil service and pay you what civil servants earn. You should write to the state governments to take you in each sector and not the federal government.



Your letter is dead on arrival though cos their are people at the sit of power who will replace npower beneficiaries with their wards if you want to be taken into the federal civil service. Start up something and stop waiting for this buhari-led government

Supported. Good move

Wash!!! What I expected a sensible government to do was create a youth empowerment scheme just as the last administration did devoid of ethnic, religious bais or better still continue the you win program of the last administration. At least it created employers of labour instead of this hogwash of giving stipend.
To the OP, you understood the terms of engagement before signing up. So no need asking for more because others are also waiting in line for their share. NPower ko, NLosser ni

selfishness at its peak,
what about the upcoming beneficiaries?
this is one of the reasons why Nigeria is backward at all level.

The plea is not much considering the role of the youths in the society

trillville:
Digitalfinga
Bjayx
Deepwater

This Npower scheme was not organized right from the onset and can be seen as mere patch work to the terrible situation of youth unemployment.[b] Bill Gates [\b] rightly pointed at the need for government to invest more in education and healthcare. The Npower scheme properly targetted these areas of deficiencies. Where government has failed is in not building a framework to ensure that adequate funding for the scheme is available and also the absorption of quality graduates on completion of the initial 2 years.

Government should have implemented the oronsanya report. As the former head of civil service of the federation, Oronsanya conducted research and found that several MDA'S had replication of jobs and services so he wrote a report to the president (Yaradua) advising that such mda's be merged together to save the government of much needed funds. This makes sense as why should the government waste money on individuals who aren't adding any benefit to the public when our schools and hospital lack much needed staff.

Government should have increased tax collection on the rich. Nigeria is a highly unequal country. Recently it was revealed that our "honourable" minister of communications, Barrister Adebayo Shittu, purchased 12 houses and 25 cars over the period of the last 3 years. According to our extant laws, the money he used to purchase these items was legally earned by him as an "honourable" minister of the federal republic of Nigeria. Such behavior is prevalent across all sectors of government. Barr. Shittu may not be found guilty for fraud in a court of law but he can be taxed heavily to ensure Nigeria recovers our lost wealth. Such funds can be used to refurbish our public schools and also employ youths into permanent positions with liveable salaries.

Government should maintain the same tarriffs rate with our neighboring countries. Why should vehicles be cheaper in Benin Republic than in Nigeria? Why should an airline ticket be cheaper in Ghana than over here in Nigeria? Government should focus it's revenue generation on the rich in our society and not on the struggling people. The former CBN boss, SLS, said that 5 percent of Nigerians account for 90 of bank deposits in Nigeria. This 5 percent of people should also be the sole focus of tax increases in the country. After all,
to he who much is given, much is expected. Middle income and low income people do businesses to survive so the more money in their pockets would enable them to employ more unemployed youths.

Finally, government should focus squarely on improving of macro-economy to ensure price stability both in the dollar rate and market prices of goods and services.

Is this too much to ask for?

This your comment makes sense die. I wish it could get to the minister of budget and economic planning also the minister of finance.

I bet they know it too but vested interest won't allow them to the right things.

Many Nigerians know the solution to our myriad of problems but the will to do it when they get to the corridors of power.

AnodaIT:
If you cannot, within 30 secs, scan through this and pick out the main points, your education is worthless

Let me help you, the aim of the article is what FG should do, scan through the upper parts which are mainly the benefits of npower (we all know). Go down to where you see "Demands", that's where you get the koko and move on.

That shouldn't take 30 secs

Funny enough he would read a bbn thread from start to end.

Foodforthought:
Myopic because I don't share the same opinion? Respect yourself, this is a public forum

I think he agreed with you and not the op.

blazhykowskyi:
This your comment makes sense die. I wish it could get to the minister of budget and economic planning also the minister of finance.

I bet they know it too but vested interest won't allow them to the right things.

Many Nigerians know the solution to our myriad of problems but the will to do it when they get to the corridors of power.

We don't need these old men to change things.These old men in rulership know this truth. They make it seem like they are doing the youths a favour but in reality they are supposed to be pensioners now. Look, we have the power.

Elections are just a year from now. we have no choice as youths but to vote out these old men and vote in a youth. We cannot reward failures by voting them back in. The average age of Nigerians is 17 years old. Even if a younger person doesn't win the election, if we get enough votes, these old people will be forced to listen to us and do more for us. We have no choice but to use our pvc's. Out with the old and in with the youth.

razy75:
Unity young beggars.

u are bastard, do u have to quote the whole post? Oloshi

I hope the original copy has paragraphs to aid readability because when I saw this very long, wide string of words and letters my heart said "thank God it was not addressed to me".

Well spoken, you have spoken the minds of many Nigerians.

Mr Anumanu, the great summarizer with F9 in English. If you actually read through the passage in 30 seconds,
I wonder why you are still jobless. If your education isn't worthless you won't be dying for the Npower job.
Oponu, omo ale!

AnodaIT:
If you cannot, within 30 secs, scan through this and pick out the main points, your education is worthless

Let me help you, the aim of the article is what FG should do, scan through the upper parts which are mainly the benefits of npower (we all know). Go down to where you see "Demands", that's where you get the koko and move on.

That shouldn't take 30 secs

This same npower dat sm pple have used to Hat generate moni.... Now 2017 abandon today dst bagger lol do live chat to fool us again....even if pple ll be permanent certainly not evrybody we shd look at output.....dats all