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JUST IN: N-Power Responds To Viral Claim It Asked All Beneficiaries To Resign

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Jan 20, 2022.

JUST IN: N-Power Responds To Viral Claim It Asked All Beneficiaries To Resign

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the N-Power scheme via its verified Facebook page on Thursday described as “false” a message purportedly from the National Social Investment Management System (NASIMS) asking the present beneficiaries to resign if they cannot cope with the epileptic payment pattern of the scheme.

A spurious social media page had claimed that NASIMS had added a resignation button to beneficiaries’ portal, ‘offering mischievous beneficiaries’ the option to resign. But N-Power has branded it “scam”.

“This information is false and does not emanate from N-Power. Kindly disregard it,” the scheme said while sharing screenshots of the viral message.

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This newspaper understands that beneficiaries are owed November and December 2021 stipends.

The Batch C stream 1 of its N-Power programme was kickstarted in August 2021 with 510,000 beneficiaries in the first stream. Under Batch C1, 450,000 have been selected to benefit under the graduate component while 60,000 beneficiaries are non-graduate beneficiaries.

In the graduate components, beneficiaries receive monthly stipends of N30, 000; the non-graduate beneficiaries are paid an N10, 000 monthly stipend.

Authorities say the N-Power programme is created to help young Nigerians acquire and develop life-long skills to become active players in the domestic and global markets.

Beneficiaries are absorbed in education, agriculture, health, building, ICT and creative industry sectors.

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