Latest NPower News Today 22nd August 2021
Welcome to GoldenNewsNg, we know Applicants especially Npower Batch C are eager to get the latest happening on Npower program, you don’t need to look further because we have compiled the Latest Npower News for you. Hence all NPower applicants should read this article to the end and always come back from time to time to check for more updates.
There Is No Issue With NPower Stream 2
The NPower Batch C2, that is NPower Stream 2 will commence after the onboarding of the NPower Batch C1, that is the NPower stream 1.
All NPower Batch C applicants not captured in the first batch will definitely be captured in the second batch.
The date for the commencement of the NPower Batch C2, has not been disclosed, but all NPower Batch C applicants awaiting the next batch should always check their NPower NASIMS portal for updates.
Important Notice for Npower Applicants
Following the Latest Npower News , GoldenNewsNg bring an Important Notice for Npower Applicants
If you are an NPower Batch A and B exited volunteer, and you are being owed 5 months backlogs, it might be that you were erroneously flagged for payment issues, or you were erroneously reported as an abscondee by your Departmental Head or by your Principal, whichever the case the deed has been done, so the question is what do you do?
Firstly, if you have been flagged for payment issues, please I repeat do not relax or rest on your laurels, please proceed to your secretariat, I do not mean your local government secretariat, i mean your state secretariat, for example if an NPower Volunteer hails from Lagos State, the N-Power Volunteer’s secretariat is at the capital of the state which is at Alausa, Ikeja.
Update On NPower NEXIT Today 22nd August 2021
GoldenNewsNg understands that Lots of NPower Batch A and B Volunteers have been asking how much NEXIT loan they will eventually be entitled to.
please the Ministry is yet to disclose the entire NEXIT package neither have the Ministry given a maximum or minimum amount of loan to be given to NPower Batch A and B Volunteers.
Is NPower solving Nigeria’s unemployment problem ? Let’s Discuss
The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, recently released the statistics on unemployment for the second quarter, Q2, of 2020 after a long hiatus since the third quarter, Q3, of 2018.
The percentage of unemployed people stands at 27.1 per cent. The last report which was released in 2018 showed the rate at 23 per cent. Apparently, within two years, the unemployment rate in Nigeria rose by four per cent.
This points to – among other things – the fact that President Muhammadu Buhari’s social and welfare programmes for the unemployed and less privileged including NPower, which are touted in various fora as a panacea to the perennial unemployment problem in Nigeria have not been effective.
As part of his manifestos in 2015, he promised to provide three million jobs yearly. In order to fulfill this promise, he rolled out the NPower programme, Conditional Cash Transfer Scheme, CCTS, and Special Public Works, SPW, programme among others.
In corroborating the success of the social and welfare programmes, Mrs. Maryam Uwais, Special Adviser to President Buhari on National Social Welfare recently said that over 11.5 million people have already benefited directly from all the programmes and about nine million others have benefited indirectly.
Some proponents might argue that government’s social programmes NPower have greatly reduced unemployment rate thereby, faulting this fact and attributing the latest increase in unemployment rate to the ripple effects of COVID-19 pandemic.
But looking at the statistics, instead of a consistent reduction in unemployment rate, a look at the unemployment data prior to the COVID-19 pandemic shows a steady rise in unemployment.
