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The Nigerian government has disengaged over 2,000 beneficiaries of one of its National Social Investment Programme (NSIP), N-Power.

NSIP spokesman Justice Bibiye said the beneficiaries were dismissed for absconding duties at their places of primary assignment (PPA) for a long time.

N-Power was introduced in 2016 by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration “to imbibe the entrepreneurship culture in the Nigerian youth aged between 18 and 35 — both graduates and non-graduates”.

An estimated 500,000 youths across the country are currently engaged in the scheme, providing services in the country’s education, health, agriculture sectors and local government offices with a monthly N30,000 stipend....Read more

Very good.

If it's not important to them they should vacate the position for those that need it.

see www.classicnewsngr.com to read more details. Thanks

500000 people multiplied by 30,000 is 15billi. Nawa

This things has multiplier effects.
Some of our national Assembly members with the jumbo pay they receive hardly sit for statutory numbers of days they should.
Our dear president some time absconded for almost 4 months, goes down to directors,
Is it because is N power.
Fire every one, starting from the head.
Amen

They probably never even existed (ghost workers), no be naija again?

emilas1979:
This things has multiplier effects.
Some of our national Assembly members with the jumbo pay they receive hardly sit for statutory numbers of days they should.
Our dear president some time absconded for almost 4 months, goes down to directors,
Is it because is N power.
Fire every one, starting from the head.
Amen

Shallow and unpatriotic reasoning. The FG should also use BVN to weed out those that are employed but still engaged in the scheme.

Susu888:
They probably never even existed (ghost workers), no be naija again?

Most of them are just getting salary without doing anything,some are not even posted to anywhere