Npower Nexit
Beneficiaries to Get 3 million Naira CBN Loan After Training
In todays latest Npower Nexit News –
Qualified Nexit Applicants To Get N3M CBN Loan As FG Flagged Off Scheme. The
Minister of Humanitarian
Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Sadiya Umar
Farouq has flagged off the much awaited NEXIT/CBN Agri-Business Small and
Medium Enterprises Investment Scheme for exited N-Power beneficiaries Batches A
and B.
Out of the 467,183
trainees who indicated interest, 75,600 will participate in the first phase of
the orientation programme expected to lead up to collection of loans of up to
three million Naira from the Central Bank of Nigeria if they qualify.
At the flag off ceremony which took place on Monday at the Press Centre, Radio
House Abuja, the Minister, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary
Bashir Nura Alkali thanked President Muhammadu Buhari for his administration’s
unwavering efforts in eradicating poverty in the country and for supporting and
sustaining the National Social Investment Programmes.
She also
congratulated the 467,183 trainees who indicated interest in the NEXIT CBN
AGSMEIS programme from the 500,000 batches A and B exited beneficiaries.
Umar Farouq noted that this is the first of several other phases that will take
place in all the 36 states and the FCT.
It has been my
desire that the exited batches A and B N-Power graduate beneficiaries will not
be left unattended to. In different channels, | kept on assuring these teaming
youths that the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and
Social Development has worked very closely with the Central Bank of Nigeria to
realize this dream.
Today marks the
beginning of the fulfilment of this awaited training that will enable those
beneficiaries that indicated interest to participate in the CBN empowerment
programme.
For ease of
coordination, this training programme will be conducted in phases. Let me also
inform you that all the 36 States and FCT are participating in this long
awaited NEXIT training programme. A total of 75,600 participants are in this
first batch of the training. We will continue to train the remaining batches in
no distant time.
The Federal
Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development is
committed to ensuring that the strategic objectives of all the social
intervention programmes are harnessed to achieve the desired goals and
objectives.
The N-Power
programme is a critical part or the National Social Investment Programmes
domiciled in the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management
and Social Development designed to achieve the National objectives of poverty
reduction and job creation. The N-Power programme is key to helping young
Nigerians acquire and develop life-long skills that ensure they become solution
providers and entrepreneurs in their communities”.
In his welcome
address, the Permanent Secretary who was represented by the Director Planning,
Research and Statistics Raphael Oraeluno charged the beneficiaries to make
judicious use of the opportunity.
I will want to
emphasize that every trainee must see this unique opportunity as a blessing
that must not be wasted. Recall how we journeyed into this. You have finally
gotten this opportunity. Maintain the highest level of seriousness in all that
you will be taught throughout the training programme and thereafter. As
beneficiaries, you will be equipped with the necessary training that will
guarantee your participation in the CBN package meant for this purpose”.
The National
Coordinator, National Social investment Programmes Dr Umar Bindir alac advised
the beneficiaries to take advantage advised the beneficiaries to take advantage
of the CBN package to be self reliant.
At the end of the
five day training, beneficiaries who qualify will receive Loans of up to three
million Naira with a maximum tenure of seven years.
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