The Federal Government has announced that it will sponsor fifty thousand non-graduate N-power beneficiaries with nineteen billion, twenty-four naira for their training.
FG stated on Monday, in Abuja that the above sum also included the procurement of taxiway lighting systems in the Port Harcourt, Lagos, and Abuja airports.
The Ministers of Humanitarian Affairs, Social Development and Disaster Management, Sadiya Farouk, and her counterparts in the Ministries of Aviation, Education, and Water Resources, told reporters after an extraordinary meeting of the Federal Executive Council presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the State House, Abuja.
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Additionally, Farouk stated that the sum also covered consultancy services for the Dadin Kowa 40MW power project in Gombe State and the furnishing of the 10-story headquarters of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency located in Victoria Island, Lagos.
The Minister said:
“The other memo is submitted, which is to seek Council’s approval for the engagement of four federal agencies for the training of the non-graduates N-Power beneficiaries. This is in the total sum of N14.21bn with 7.5% as VAT.
“We’re now in Batch C of that programme. And we have received a report from these agencies of what we have done thus far and we are very satisfied with them. We have engaged them again and this is what we brought to the Council for approval and it graciously approved.
“One memo we presented today is a policy on the national home-grown school feeding programme which is a food-based and cost effective programme widely used around the world.
“This is under the national social investment programme. It is an important aspect of that programme because it seeks to address issues of education, health, social protection and agriculture.
“It also seeks to address the issue of out-of-school children. Recall that this programme feeds primary one, two and three pupils in schools daily and in fact, we have witnessed significant school enrollment nationwide.
“So this policy is the guiding document that is supposed to guide the activities and enhance this program delivery for a period of time. Hopefully, between now and 2030 we should be able to get all our children that are out of school back to school.”
