Confusion Over N-Power as Scheme Takes Off Today

News: Confusion Over N-Power as Scheme Takes Off Today (1st December)Posted on Thu 01st Dec, 2016 N-Power - There is confusion among many of the 200,000 candidates selected for the Federal Government’s N-Power programme concerning their place of assignment as the scheme officially takes off today, Daily Trust’s findings show. The Presidency had about two weeks ago said that 200,000 graduates employed under the N-Power would resume work on December 1. “Between now and the end of the month, the states and the FCT would be engaged in deploying the graduates who would formally start working and earning their stipends on December 1, 2016,” the Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, had said in a statement. On the complaints by many of the selected applicants that they were yet to receive letters of deployment, Akande told Daily Trust yesterday that states were responsible for the placement of participants. The vice president’s spokesman said that those selected would get their first salary in December. “Everything is set. The money is already available,” he said. “The states will deploy them to their places of primary assignments. It is not a permanent job. Rather, it is a two-year intervention programme for unemployed graduates. “All the states have keyed into the programme. The states are responsible for the deployment of the selected applicants. The states are already contacting them. The deployment started about a week ago. Some states are already doing this and others will follow suit. After the states have deployed them to their places of primary assignments, they (the selected applicants) will get letters on information about where they will work.”