Beneficiaries of the N-Power initiative who have concluded the two-year job programme will now be able to access permanent job opportunities or business prospects in line with the N-power exit strategy now activated by the Muhammadu Buhari administration. Under the plan, 200,000 beneficiaries will be engaged as financial services operators under a Shared Agent Network […]

By Joseph Erunke – Abuja The federal government has raised the number of beneficiaries of National Social Investment Programmes, NSIP, to accommodate more people. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, who disclosed this Monday, at a ministerial press conference in Abuja, said President Muhammadu Buhari raised the number of […]

By Joseph Erunke – Abuja The federal government has raised the number of beneficiaries of National Social Investment Programmes, NSIP, to accommodate more people. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, who disclosed this Monday, at a ministerial press conference in Abuja, said President Muhammadu Buhari raised the number of […]

By Joseph Erunke THE federal government has launched a portal for exited N-Power beneficiaries to apply for Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN empowerment options. Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, which announced the launch of the portal in a statement, explained that the platform was developed in collaboration with the CBN. The […]

A Portal that will enable Exited N-Power Beneficiaries to apply for Central Bank of Nigeria Empowerment Options has been launched by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development. The platform which was developed in collaboration with the CBN will enable Exited N-Power Beneficiaries to log on and apply for the various economic, […]

By Joseph Erunke THE federal government has directed beneficiaries of N-power in its first two batches who were omitted from payment of their stipends to report for verification. The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, in a statement, Tuesday, directed Batches A and B beneficiaries of the scheme earlier […]

The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development is a necessity. It could not have come at a better time, the same way the Hajia Sadiya Umar-Farouk leadership could not have been better appreciated. The ministry, last month, celebrated the first anniversary of its creation.

By Joseph Erunke – Abuja Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia Sadiya Farouq, Thursday, assured Nigerians that the selection process in the N-Power Batch C will be transparent. This was as she said the government was working out modalities with a view to integrating beneficiaries of the batches A and B […]

By Joseph Erunke THE Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq has approved the payment of stipends to the exited N-Power beneficiaries. A statement Thursday, by Nneka Ikem Anibeze, the minister’s Special Assistant on Media, quoted her as saying the “approval has been given for the payment of the outstanding […]

Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development on Friday said the N-Power programme has improved the livelihood of a critical mass of young unemployed Nigerians. Farouq said this in an address at the grand finale of events in commemoration of the ministry’s first year anniversary, in Abuja. “As at […]