One of President Muhammadu Buhari’s social empowerment programmes, N-Power, may soon be rested due to implementation setbacks said to have been caused by alleged corruption.

The Nigerian government has disengaged over 2,000 beneficiaries of one of its National Social Investment Programme (NSIP), N-Power. NSIP spokesman Justice Bibiye said the beneficiaries were dismissed for absconding duties at their places of primary assignment (PPA) for a long time. N-Power was introduced in 2016 by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration “to imbibe the…

There are growing concerns over the National Social Investment Programmes (NSIP), which is a social safety net established by the Federal Government, in 2016, to tackle poverty and hunger across the country.

The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to personally resolve the differences...

The Federal Government will scale up the National Social Investment Programmes (NSIP) to reach more Nigerians in this second tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari, an official said on Saturday. Maryam Uwais, Senior Special Adviser to the President on Social Investment Programmes gave the assurance in Lagos. She spoke at a conference organised by the Reformers…

THE Federal Government would train about 10million unemployed youths through the 30 training centres of the National Directorate of Employment across 14 states.  

Nigeria’s unemployment rate may reach 33.5 per cent by 2020, says the Federal Government.

The controversial TraderMoni scheme through which the Federal Government disburses funds to petty traders is actually part of the entire budget...

Afolabi Imoukhuede is the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the President on Job Creation and Youth Employment in the Office of the Vice President.

ActionAid Nigeria has cautioned government against diverting about N121 billion allocated for the National Social Investments Programme (NSIP) into 2019 general elections. The body said that challenges and poor planning had led the government to consider tampering with funds meant for a programme that has touched the lives of several impoverished Nigerians. In a statement…

Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, at the weekend disclosed that Kaduna State had benefited over N13.5 billion since inception of the Federal Government’s National Social Investment Programme (NSIP). Ahmed said this at the Federal College of Education, Zaria, during the disbursement of empowerment funds to women of Zone 1 of Kaduna State. In…

The Federal Government yesterday said­ it has spent N49 billion under its National Social Investment Programmes (NSIP) in the last two years to feed public primary school pupils in 24 states of the country. Special Adviser to the President on NSIP,­ Mariam Uwais, who disclosed this while briefing journalists in Abuja, said the programme, initiated…