N-Power Batch C Stipend: N-Power Applicants Demands ₦50,000

N-Power Batch C applicants have pleaded with the Federal Government to raise the current N-Power monthly stipend from ₦30,000 to ₦50,000 considering the present duration of the N-Power Programme and the high cost of living in the country.

The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development had stated that in addition to expanding the number of N-Power Volunteers to 1 million N-Power Volunteers in two streams of 500,000 N-Power beneficiaries in each stream,  the N-Power Batch C Programme has been truncated to 12 months, on a monthly N-Power stipend of ₦30,000.

Following this development, an N-Power Batch C applicant of the N-Power Programme, by the name Victor Okere pleaded with the Federal Government to increase the N-Power monthly stipend to ₦50,000 considering the twelve months duration and high cost and standard of living presently in the country.

The N-Power Batch C applicant emphasised that the cost of living has skyrocketed presently with the cost of food items and other commodities in the market increasing every day.

Speaking on behalf of many of the N-Power Batch C applicants who commended the Federal Government for the expansion of the number of N-Power Batch C N-Power Volunteers to 1 Million N-Power Volunteers, Ngozi Bethel an N-Power Batch C applicant begged the Federal Government to strike a balance between the duration of the N-Power Program and the cost of living with an increase in the monthly N-Power stipend.

This is the second time N-Power Volunteers have called for the increment of the Monthly N-Power stipend of the N-Power Beneficiaries.

In 2019, hope was heightened that increase in the minimum wage of Civil Servants would be bring about an increase in the N-Power Monthly Stipend, but this was far-fetched as this did not materialize.

However, one of the then Anchors of the N-Power Programme and Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job Creation and Youth Employment, Mr Afolabi Imoukhuede clarified that the then N-Power beneficiaries should not expect a minimum wage balance on the monthly N-Power stipend, noting that the N-power volunteers were not employees in the Civil Service Commission.