About 500,000 persons engaged in Nigeria’s social investment programme N-Power will have to look elsewhere for means of livelihood as the government is set to terminate their existing engagement. The beneficiaries were supposed to spend 24 months on the programme but Batch A beneficiaries have spent over 40 months. However, about 24-months after N-power’s launch, the sweet stories soon became sour to tell for these beneficiaries after Buhari announced major shifts in the Social Investment Programmes (SIPs) which N-Power is part of. Buhari’s assurance was not enough to keep the running of these programmes as it was earlier as N-Power beneficiaries had to resort to writing open letters and holding protests before their stipends could be paid. “The 500.000 beneficiaries nationwide will always have to protest before our 30,000 naira stipends is paid.

Source: The Guardian May 28, 2020 06:11 UTC