Author: Toju Ogbe

A first batch of 200,000 unemployed Nigerian graduates has now been selected and notified for the N-Power Volunteer Corps, NPVC.

The NPVC is a two-year programme that seeks to engage and train 500,000 young unemployed graduates to undertake volunteering assignments in formal and civic education, agriculture extension advisory services and public health promotion, in their local communities. NPVC members are divided into three sub-groups: N-Power Teach, N-Power Agro and N-Power Health.

The 200,000 beneficiaries were selected from across Nigeria’s 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory. 46% of those selected are females, while a total of 1126 were successful applicants with disabilities.

More than 90 percent of the selected persons have been verified using the Bank Verification Number, which works to ensure that monthly payments are transparently done, and there is no room for fraud or abuse. Besides the BVN, there will also be a physical verification, to authenticate the information submitted online during the application (i.e. academic credentials and residence status). 

Beneficiaries will be paid a monthly stipend of N30,000 each, for the duration of the programme, starting from December 2016.

Those not selected in this first batch are now on the waiting list, and would automatically be considered again for subsequent batches. There are still another 300,000 beneficiaries to be selected within the 2016 budget cycle.

Find more information on the selection process here

Policy source: Aso Villa Newsletter