five million jobs for youths in five years by FG

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The Federal Government has set a target of five million jobs for youths in five years through the N-Power, which is undergoing a review.

The plan is to create a million jobs each year, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu has said.

According to her, the government is reviewing the programme to restore confidence in it.
Quoting the minister, National Programme Manager, Dr Akindele Egbuwalo, said the restructuring was ongoing.

She added that more programmes would be introduced, including in education, health, works, agriculture, technology, fashion and entertainment.

Edu explained that the programme was suspended to allow for a detailed investigation into its operations in the last 12 months.

The statement reads: "This action (suspension) has become necessary to give room for a detailed investigation into the operations of the N-Power in the last 12 months.

"The total number of persons enrolled on N-POWER since inception to date is 960,000. Most of them have exited from NPower 1.0 and NPower 2.0 batches A and B.

"There is a need to audit the number of people in the programme, those who have exited the programme, those who are being owed, whether they reported to work or not and how funds have been utilised over this period of time.

"Recently, we discovered instances of programme beneficiaries whose participation has lapsed since 2022 but have remained on and continue to expect payments from the government.
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