Why Npower Permanency Will Not Happen

Npower Permanency is a process whereby Npower beneficiaries after completing their training at their place of primary assignments are retained by the Federal Government to continue discharging their duties as they continue to earn their stipend or salary.

Npower Permanency cannot happen because of the following reasons below.

1) Npower beneficiaries are posted to mostly State owned establishment and are not posted to Federal Government establishments thereby making the chances of being retained quite challenging.

2) Their are fewer Federal Government establishments in the Federation and these Ministries, Departments and Agencies cannot accommodate the large numbers of Npower beneficiaries.

3) The Npower programme is designed to be a temporary program to train Npower beneficiaries to become entrepreneurs and self reliant, thereby making permanency quite difficult.

4) The Npower beneficiaries that have already completed the Npower programme in the past were not retained thereby making permanency of the current batch extremely difficult.

Regardless of the above, Npower beneficiaries after completing their Npower programme will be exited to an enhancement programme which is known as the NEXIT training programme, under the NEXIT training programme, Npower beneficiaries will be trained for a week and after completing their one week training, these Npower beneficiaries will be given the NEXIT training certificate of completion and will be given soft loans amounting to ₦3,000,000 to start a business of their choice.