President Muhammadu Buhari on
Tuesday said his government’s policies, including N-Power, were yielding
results.
In his Democracy Day speech,
Buhari noted that the Whistle-Blowing Policy has helped to recover over N500
Billion.
He further lists achievements of
the Social Investment Programmes.
“Home Grown School Feeding
Programme – About 8.2 million pupils are currently being fed from 24 States of
the Federation with over 75,000 Catering Staff engaged under the programme.
“The Conditional Cash Transfer
has so far recorded over 297,000 caregivers and being trained by 2,495
Community Facilitators in 21 states. Less privileged Nigerians are now being
paid N5,000 monthly stipend in 9 pilot States of Bauchi, Borno, Cross River,
Ekiti, Kwara, Kogi, Niger, Osun and Oyo. Eventually the scheme will cover all
the 36 states of the federation including the FCT.
“Under the Government Enterprise
Empowerment Programme – About 264,269 loans had been disbursed to 4,822
societies in the 36 States and FCT, while another 370,635 are awaiting release
of funds.
“N-Power Job creation Scheme – is
targeted at providing jobs for unemployed young graduates and has so far
recruited 200,000 youths while the next batch of 300,000 have been selected,
verified and would soon be deployed across the 36 States and the FCT.
“Furthermore, 20,000 non-graduate volunteers
have also been selected to kick off the N-Build programme in collaboration with
the National Automotive Design and Development Council and the Council of
Registered Builders of Nigeria,” he said.
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