[PHOTOS] Adamawa, Rivers Among 13 States That Have Completed Their N-Power Verification Of 200,000 Graduates

13 states of the Federation have submitted verified lists of graduates expected to participate in the N-Power job creation programme that is expected to employ 200,000 graduates under the current administration.

This is in line with the Federal Government’s decision to commence the payment of monthly stipends to the 200,000 graduates engaged under the programme.

The Senior Special Assistant to Vice President Osinbajo on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande disclosed this on Sunday, December 18 while giving a news update on the programme, he stated that also in some states the graduates have also been deployed to their primary places of assignment, noting that payment of the N30,000 stipends for the graduates will commence this month once verification and deployment have been done.

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Under the N-Power Volunteer Scheme, the Federal Government announced the selection and engagement of 200,000 unemployed graduates as the first batch of the half a million the Buhari administration plans to hire for the 2-year paid volunteer job programme.

While the Federal Government is responsible for their monthly stipends, it is in partnership with state governments to verify the selected unemployed graduates and deploy them to their primary places of assignment since each of the volunteer graduates would be serving in their communities where they are resident, Akande explained.

He disclosed that the states that have completed the verification by weekend are Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Cross Rivers, Gombe, Jigawa, Katsina and Kogi states. Others are Niger, Plateau, Sokoto, Taraba and Zamfara States, while verification and deployment have already been completed in Benue, Cross Rivers and Kogi.

According to the SSA, in virtually all the states of the federation, the verification has commenced and there are indications that much progress would be made this week in order to enable the Federal Government process the monthly payments of the already verified graduates before Christmas.

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