a. Some 109,823 beneficiaries have become entrepreneurs employing the services of others.

b. It provides our teeming youth with learning opportunities and job experience.

c. Provides youth income for startups of economic transforming initiatives.

d. It addresses unemployment and improves the livelihood of young unemployed Nigerians.

e. Others have acquired requisite experience and skills that have enabled them secure jobs.

f. Some of them are currently engaged as aggregators for the Home-grown School Feeding Programme.

g. The benchmark for every State that benefits from the graduate programme was pecked at 10,000 beneficiaries. This actually means that each state has a monthly drawdown of a minimum of 300million Naira going into the state’s economic activities from N-Power alone.

h. Some states get as high as 19,000 volunteers. Numbers beyond the 10,000 per State are based on needs like the poverty index of the State. One can imagine then the multiplier effects of this programme to the States.

12. What’s the success rate between the Graduate program and the Non -Graduate?
Answer: The success rate is very high in the 2 components but the rate at which the non-graduate plays is like a ready-made market as they become productive during their training sessions. Most of them are recruited in the various construction industries while others make use of their tools and scout for jobs. On the other hand, State Governments have seen the contribution of the graduate volunteers ( N-Teach) that are attached to the various schools owned by the States.

13. How do you intend to make adequate provision for exited beneficiaries?
Answer: We have studied the programme implementation thus far and have come up with this pilot of the transition through collaboration with CBN in offering opportunities to willing volunteers to use this strategy. Other options are being considered and will be leveraged upon as we continue to roll out the programme.

14. N-Power programme is an interventionist program, how would you ensure the teeming unemployed youths benefit from FGs intervention considering the large numbers of unemployed young Nigerians?
Answer: The assurance is for us to continue to allow the programme to be an intervention thereby allowing others to come in after the duration is completed accordingly. We have also redesigned the programme into a more integrated social investment programme. The aim is to engage more beneficiaries as well as increase the impact on the economy. This also informed the revision of the programme from a 2-year to a 1-year duration. JOB!

15. The cry for permanency of batches A&B has been so loud, why can’t FG provide a permanent job offer to the beneficiaries rather than the transitioned offer?
Answer: Right from the prograrmme design and application process, the duration of the programme is made known to interested persons. Government is to create an enabling environment for youth to build capacity and gain experience through Social Protection programmes like the N-power and not employing permanently over 500,000 in its payroll. This intervention has been considered as the single largest post-tertiary education recruitment in Africa. In reducing the unemployment rate, different tracks have been taken to ensure volunteers and trainees utilize those opportunities and become productive and self-reliant through on-the-job and hands-on experience.

16. Are Applicants or selected beneficiaries expected to make any payment to be selected or onboarded?
Answer: No, the application, selection, and onboarding process are FREE at all levels. Any attempt to extort money from innocent Nigerians should be reported and perpetrators will be penalized according to the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria