The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Investment, Maryam Uwais, has disclosed that the Nigerian government was working on how to “disengage” over 200,000 beneficiaries of the government’s social intervention programme, N-Power.
Mrs Uwais made this known while featuring on Nigerian Television Authority, NTA.
The Presidential aide said that the government was in talks with the Finance ministry on the next plan for those to be disengaged.
“We are trying to see how we can address some of these gaps through these N-power beneficiaries that are meant to be disengaged by end of the year.
“We are looking out loans to be made available to them, it has not be finalized yet with the finance ministry,” she said.
Mrs Uwais made this known while featuring on Nigerian Television Authority, NTA.
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The Presidential aide said that the government was in talks with the Finance ministry on the next plan for those to be disengaged.
“We are trying to see how we can address some of these gaps through these N-power beneficiaries that are meant to be disengaged by end of the year.
“We are looking out loans to be made available to them, it has not be finalized yet with the finance ministry,” she said.
The NPower programme was created by the Federal Government in 2016 with a view to tackling the high rate of unemployment in the country.
It is a platform that the Nigerian government created to absorb the large population of her unemployed youths between 18 and 35 years of age.
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