The Federal Government on Wednesday said over 5 million Nigerians applied for the 400,000 spaces available for Batch C of Npower scheme under the Social Investment Programme.
The government said since the programme kicked off in 2016, it has supported 500,000 young Nigerians with monthly stipends in exchange for work placements in Agriculture, Healthcare and Education.
It stated that the Batches A and B of the programme have now ended.
“The first two batches of @npower_ng enrolees (Batches A and B) have now come to the end of the programme. Enrolment for the new batch (Batch C) closed in August 2020; more than 5 million young Nigerians applied for the 400,000 spaces available in Batch C,” it stated.
Tweeting via its official handle @NigeriaGov, the Federal Government said “Npower has also made available digital skills training under its N-Tech and N-Creative components. More than 100,000 beneficiaries of the N-Power Programme invested their stipends in setting up businesses, and are now business owners.”
