Npower Stipends News in Nigeria-Everything You Need To Know About N-Power And Its Payment Structure

Npower Stipends News in Nigeria-Everything You Need To Know About N-Power And Its Payment Structure

The Npower beneficiaries are yet to receive their June and July Stipends. This is after the Federal Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development Sadiya Farouq stated that the June stipend has been approved. The Minister of Humanitarian affairs stated about two weeks ago that the volunteers will be paid their stipend by last week but nothing has been done since then.

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N-Power is a scheme initiated by the Nigerian federal government in order to equip Nigerians with employment and economic potentials. As a socio-economic scheme, N-Power avails Nigerian youths the opportunity to acquire economic and technical skills required for survival in the contemporary society

The N-Power graduate beneficiaries are paid a monthly stipend of N30, 000, making a total of fifteen billion Naira (N15,077,400,000) being budgeted as remuneration by the Nigerian government for June stipends has not been paid to both Batch A and Batch B beneficiaries. Batch A exited the N-Power program on June 30.

By and large, N-Power is a well-thought-out response to the alarming rate of unemployment among Nigerian youths. In order to promote Nigeria’s economy and correct the inadequacy in the country’s public services, N-Power avails numerous Nigerian youths the avenue for acquiring vital work skills.

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The Batch B enrollees who officially exited the scheme on Friday, 31st of July, 2020, haven’t been paid both their June and July stipends.

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq stated at a press briefing in Abuja that no fewer than 502,580 youths have been genuinely enrolled in the Social Investment Programme(N-SIP) of the federal government. According to Farouq, the N-Power program is aimed at driving skill development and job creation for unemployed youths between the ages of 18 and 35.

While explaining the delay in June payment, Farouq said;

“After receiving complaints of non-payment by some beneficiaries, who did same through the ministry, the OAGF (GIFMIS) officially wrote informing the ministry that out of a total of Five Hundred and Sixteen Thousand, Six Hundred (516,600) N-Power beneficiaries data sent to OAGF for migration in April 2020, only a total of Five Hundred and Two Thousand, Five Hundred and Eighty data have successfully migrated to the GIFMIS platform,”

Now, with 9 days gone in the month of August already, beneficiaries are still waiting to be paid for June and July.

Since the National Social Investment Programme (N-SIP) was transferred to the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development in October 2019, N-Power beneficiaries’ pay has not been regular, this is according to the beneficiaries for the scheme.
Some of the beneficiaries of the scheme stated their dismay of the delay on Twitter. See some of their tweets below;

Npower Stipends 2020 and Monthly  Salary structure

As a development-oriented programme, N-Power will further foster the diversification of Nigeria’s economy. Therefore, the programme is aimed at equipping youthful Nigerians with the world-class skills and certification that would gear them up for innovative contributions both domestically and globally. N-Power training will empower Nigerian youths with necessary capabilities that can make Nigeria have a decent community of hardware service professionals, graphic artists, artisans, building service professionals, animators, software developers, etc.

While N-Power also seeks to equip non-graduates with the necessary technical and business skills that promote standards of living, the programme is basically divided into the 3 segments below:

1. N-Power Knowledge (25,000 non-graduates)
2. N-Power Build (75,000 non-graduates)
3. N-Power Teachers Corps (500,000 graduates)

N-Power’s Areas of Focus

N-Power applicants have to be aware of the areas the programme majorly prioritizes for the training of participants. These areas are considered the cornerstone of N-Power and they are as follows:

• Vocation
• Technology
• Agriculture
• Animation
• Post production
• Teaching
• Community Service
• Health

Eligibility Requirements

Although N-Power seeks to provide the majority of Nigerians with an avenue for acquiring developmental skills, not all Nigerians are currently eligible for the scheme. Therefore, eligible Nigerians for N-Power are those within the age bracket of 18-35 years and who have met the least requirements for their chosen programmes. However in general, Nigerian youths are selected for N-Power based on the requirements below:

• Readiness of the applicants to progress beyond their comfort zones
• Indication of sincere interest in chosen areas of specialization
• Expression of interest in developing the required skills for becoming successful
• Excelling in the test related to your chosen programme

While the requirements spelt above are general eligibility prerequisites, N-Power applicants should note that there are fixed requirements such as the minimum academic qualification of Bachelor’s Degree or Higher National Diploma (HND) for those interested in the programme’s Graduate segment.

Registration & Recruitment

To apply for N-Power, do well to follow the step-by-step guide below:

• Visit the official website of N-Power portal.npower.gov.ng
• Choose your preferred N-Power category and your choice programme under the category (you’ll find three categories namely N-Power Volunteer corps, N-Power Knowledge and N-Power Build)
• Click the “Apply now” button that you see after selecting your preferred category and programme
• Doing the above will take you to the application form page. You’ll have to fill the form with necessary details about you –you’ll find the details in this article as you read on
• The logo of N-Power will be sent to you to confirm that your registration has been successfully completed. N-Power will further send you an e-mail message for you to know your pre-selection status. The e-mail message will be sent few days after the registration

For you to be recruited into N-Power, you must have registered by supplying relevant information about yourself and following a certain recruitment procedure. Below are the details you have to provide in the course of N-Power registration:

1. Bank Verification Number (BVN)
2. Place of birth
3. Nationality
4. Qualification certificate
5. Passport data
6. Phone number –you’ll have to provide a functional one
7. CV
8. An accurate name record
9. An active e-mail address

N-Power Salary Structure

The table below shows the details of the monthly stipends attached to the various N-Power programmes.

This article, so far, has provided you genuine information on almost everything you need to know about N-Power. But if you wish to get more info about N-Power, do well to visit the official website of the programme.