Osinbajo sees to the opening of the nation’s job portal

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Osinbajo sees to the opening of the nation’s job portal

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Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has directed that the online portal of the government’s job initiative, N-Power, be reopened June 17 to allow more unemployed Nigerians apply.This was disclosed to newsmen by the Minister of State, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, while advising unemployed to apply for the Federal Government’s National Social Investment Programme (N-SIP).Ahmed also said that the government would scale up the N-SIP to accommodate more beneficiaries.N-SIP is a federal government programme aimed at reducing poverty and improving livelihoods of vulnerable groups such as the unemployed youths, women and children, according to her.The government says the programme has so far empowered over 1.6 million Nigerians through its four components, namely; N-Power, National Home Grown School Feeding Programme, Conditional Cash Transfer, and Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme.The minister said each component of the programme would be scaled up this year.“For example, in N-Power Scheme that 200,000 beneficiaries have been employed, we are supposed to increase it to 500,000 beneficiaries in 2017,” Ahmed explained.“There is opportunity in the N-Power Programme for employment,” she said.“There is opportunity in the GEEP for you to get finances to be able to start businesses.“Please this is real, it is working, join the process and be a beneficiary,’’ the minister said.In explaining the reason for the delay, Ahmed said it was to eliminate fraudulent applicants and to make the process transparent.According to the minister, the programme had not been able to attain its set target because of the delay in starting its actual implementation.“The deployment, release of funds didn’t start till October 2016 and it is so because we want to make sure that the programme is planned properly.“We want to make sure that each beneficiary has bank account linked to BVN; we are targeting the right people, not just people nominated by big people.“That took a lot of time but we thank God that the programme is going on well and it is now easier to upscale it,’’ the minister said.“We are thanking God for witnessing the confirmation that the work we have done is actually yielding results,” she concluded. 

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