BREAKING: FG Set To Enroll One Million Beneficiaries As N-Power Batch C, And 5.6 Million Persons As CCT Beneficiaries.

Hon Sadiya Farouq the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has assured that all outstanding payments to Batches A and B beneficiaries of N-Power programme have been paid.

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq, disclosed to journalists in Abuja, that one million beneficiaries will be enrolled in two streams of 500,000 participants each as the Batch C of the N-Power programme.

Answering to questions about the outstanding payments of some Batch B beneficiaries, the Minister said her ministry in partnership with the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation had successfully cleared all outstanding payments.

“We have sorted out all the backlogs of N-Power payments with the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation and we have moved on to the next batch,” she said.

She explained that that N-Power was another component of the National Social Investment Programme designed to stem the growing tide of poverty, unemployment and social insecurity in Nigeria.

She said, “N-Power is the job creation and economic component of the NSIP for young unemployed Nigerians. It has provided temporary income-generating opportunities for 500,000 unemployed youths of Batches A and B N-Power beneficiaries.

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“Currently the ministry is about concluding the enrollment of
1,000,000 Batch C applicants in two streams of 500,000 in the first
instance and another 500,000 later.”

Farouq further stated that
under the National Social Register, a total number of 6,969,230
households and 29,766,599 persons had been captured.

She said
about 4,000,000 households and 20,000,000 persons were to be added to
the social register, as one million households and 5.6 million persons
had been captured under the Conditional Cash Transfer.

“There is a plan to add another batch of 1,000,000 households and 5,600,000 persons to the CCT,” she added.