N-Power Beneficiaries Threaten To Embark On Strike, Lament Non-payment Of 3 Months Allowances

Some of the beneficiaries who spoke to SaharaReporters urged the Nigerian government to pay their stipends to enable them to buy food for Christmas and New Year celebrations.

Beneficiaries of the N-Power Batch C2 have threatened to embark on a nationwide strike over the non-payment of their allowances for three months.

Some of the beneficiaries who spoke to SaharaReporters urged the Nigerian government to pay their stipends to enable them to buy food for Christmas and New Year celebrations.

“It is shameful and extremely painful our government has held on to our three months stipends without any explanation whatsoever.

“First of all, the N-Power batch C2 beneficiaries were deployed in September but we were asked to resume at our place of primary assignment (PPA) on the 4th of October which we did, and since then, nothing has been done about our stipends. Meanwhile, we applied for the empowerment programme in 2020. After so much delay, we were deployed two years after and still no payment.

“We are suffering and there are speculations that the minister said she has paid all the beneficiaries and does not owe anyone,” one of them told SaharaReporters.

Since its creation by President Muhammadu Buhari in June 2016 to address youth unemployment and help increase social development in the country, the N-Power scheme has been dogged by many scandals and failed to live up to its billing.

Recently, popular musician, Oladapo Oyebanji, famously known as D'banj was arrested by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for allegedly fraudulently diverting hundreds of millions of naira earmarked by the Nigerian government for the N-Power project.

Soon after his arrest, it was revealed to SaharaReporters how top government officials introduced over 90,000 ghost workers into the programme and fraudulently diverted billions of naira into their pockets.

In June 2021, SaharaReporters reported that 14,000 beneficiaries of the N-Power programme were owed for five months.

N-Power is a youth empowerment scheme sponsored by the Nigerian Government under the Social Investment Programme (SIP).

Other programmes under the scheme include Home Grown School Feeding, Tradermoni, Marketmoni and the Conditional Cash Transfer in the 36 states of the country.

SaharaReporters gathered that since the social investment programme of the government was moved to the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, the minister, Sadiya Farouq, had been making attempts to stop some of the programmes under the scheme.

Aside from announcing that beneficiaries would be laid off, she had also refused to release funds for the school feeding programme in some states.

A source at the humanitarian ministry once told SaharaReporters that top government officials in President Buhari’s government have been using cronies to siphon funds under the social intervention programmes.

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uboma, mukina2, davide470

Those guys have registered since 2020, up till now, they haven't received a kobo. Is this an empowerment or enslavement?

Dbanj o o o
Dbanj abiala
Make we ask dbanj

The humanitarian minister isn't competent to handle the ministry

She couldn't even defend a mere budject before the house

That woman and the ministry reek of corruption in entirety. Complete fraud.


This should on front page.

Seun, Mynd44, Dominique, Lalasticlala etc

Eya. I just feel for this people

Na una sabi... go hustle rest. Me sef na beneficiary but I nor send dem or dia PPA.

Hahahah.... ASUU, Doctors and professional bodies went on strike, FG no send their papa. Shey na una papa Dem wan send?

K

Lol

Nigeria! A nation filled with diverse acts of corrupt practices.

The citizens are likewise corrupt just as the Political leaders

Wen we dey tell Una last 3years say dem wan use am bribe Una destiny, Una still go vote in failure.
Now 30k u no see

Their business. Something much better and transparent than n-power is coming

Lmao dem go dey there for 10 years dem no go reason them.

Beneficiaries threatning to go on strike? Thats funny.
N- power is just an empowerment programme.
So, the beneficiaries shld instead beg instead of using threats.
If begging fails, then they shld be patient and ready to vote in PO next year as last hope

Wait,

Make una explain this story give me, cause e be me like say na me no balance well reason am.

As in, people wey them dey "dash" money wan embark on strike say their benefactors no gree give them money for some months?

LMAO!

Nigerian Man Assaulted For Buying Food With Redesigned Naira Note (Video)



A Nigerian man who patronised a local restaurant got embarrassed and assaulted by the owner for paying for his meal with the redesigned 1,000 naira note.

A clip of the incident posted on Twitter on Friday showed a woman, the restaurant owner, insisting that the man must pay for his food with the old naira note.

The woman violently held on to the man’s trouser and got it torn, while rejecting the redesigned 1,000 note the man was holding.

“Give me my money immediately, what kind of rubbish is this,” the food seller yelled at the man as she continued to drag him.

"I never see dis kind money before, I no dey collect,” the woman said in Pidgin English.

“Na dey new note na, which one be dis?” the man responded, shouting at top of his voice.

Watch The Video below


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77HxMnaD-bM


https://amiloadednews.com/2022/12/nigerian-man-assaulted-for-buying-food-with-redesigned-naira-note-video.html

D'banj comes to mind. I nor talk pass this

PastorOku:
Na una sabi... go hustle rest. Me sef na beneficiary but I nor send dem or dia PPA.

Beneficiaries without benefits. APC don scam these ones.

Saturdays and Sundays I must eat good meals with one of my beautifuls ❤️ at the outing. God continue to make it possible.

afonja dbanj don chop their money in arrears

hiaw! hiaw!! hiaw!!!
Go ahead!

what work did they do.
Govt promise to dash you money and yo are threatening to go on strike.
what value are you adding to the society?

What's their work again

AntiTerrorist:
N-Power Beneficiaries Threaten To Embark On Strike, Lament Non-payment Of 3 Months Allowances
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n power or what do they call you guys, you have been scammed, you are definitely OYO.

I don't knw y ds sounds so funny

Buddha3:
Wait,

Make una explain this story give me, cause e be me like say na me no balance well reason am.

As in, people wey them dey "dash" money wan embark on stike say their benefactors no gree give them money for some months?

LMAO!

h
Me self no understand

NaijaSumi:
Nigeria! A nation filled with diverse acts of corrupt practices.

The citizens are likewise corrupt just as the Political leaders

Loud it!

Stream 2 have always been unlucky. We stream 1 don chop Npower money clean mouth
I hope they pay them eventually.

Theniceguy and ihordspy, how are you guys coping?

Coping as how?

Npower and 30k BMC turned TMC is enough of course.

Between, Tochukwu won't you go home for Christmas

BeardedMeat:
Theni.ceguy and ihor.dspy, how are you guys coping?

Stream 1 non graduate category was scammed. They only paid for few months. Now they've onboarded stream 2.
Where is our minister for npower here on nairaland... Mr ezenwaze abi what's his name again. We don't hear from him anymore