Npower: State Governments’ Contribution in the programme

NPower Latest News: The role of the State Government in this empowerment programme is largely in supporting the implementation as well as the Monitoring and Evaluation to ensure that delivery is in line with the FGs goals and objectives since it’s the States that are beneficiaries of the NPower programme.

The Npower Programme is supervised at the State level by the NSIP State Focal Persons who are appointed by the State governments.

NPower: FG inaugurates 510,000 graduate, non-graduate volunteers
The Federal Government on Monday in Abuja inaugurated the 510,000 NPower Batch C stream 1 across the country. In her keynote address at the inauguration, Sadiya Umar Farouq, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development congratulated the successful beneficiaries…Read More

The benchmark for every State that benefits from the Npower 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 NPower alone.

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.