2017 N-POWER ASSESSMENT

N-Power on its twitter page @npwower_ng stated on the 30^th day of June, 2017 that the assessment for all registered applicant that has been successfully verified through the NIBSS with their respective Bank Verification Number (BVN) details will commence on the 1^st day of July, 2017. 

To avoid some of the issues of the 2016 applications, 2017 applicants will have to go through the process listed below

1.       Application

2.       BVN Validation

3.       Test

4.       Device Selection

5.       Pre-Selection

6.       Physical Verification

7.       Selection

8.       Deployment

The assessment will be done online and all qualified applicant will receive an SMS a day before his or her assessment date.  All applicant are advised to always check the www.npower.gov.ng as some may not receive the SMS due to unavailability of network on their mobile phones or they may be in some remote areas.  Fore warned is fore armed.

This is also to inform you that some applicants will receive SMS asking them to reapply for the 2017 N-Power Programme.  N-Power on its twitter handle hereby urges anyone that receives the message to kindly reapply on or before the 13^th of July, 2017.

Stay tuned for more important and detailed information.

N-Power Device Collection

The Federal Government Social Investment Programme, N-Power stated that the device collection would be done sometimes in April but due to some unforeseen circumstance and change in strategy and decision, the distribution of the device has been postponed for easy and convenient distribution of the said devices.

However, the device collection will be in batches and you can be rest assured that the devices will reach their rightful owners without being exploited by anybody, authority or officials.

There has not been any date at the moment as to when the device will be ready for pick-ups due to security reasons and all volunteers that have successfully selected their devices will get theirs when all security measures have been put in place

You are hereby advised to get the following documents ready, and wait for an e-mail from the N-Power Federal team containing your receipt which you will need to print and take to the collection centre. Some of the documents includes;
i. N-Power device collection receipt (Pls make a coloured print out of the Receipt)
ii. N-Power Profile details which consist of; Your bio data, Your device specification, Your bank details, Your payment details.
iii. Your valid means of IDENTIFICATION (ID) the one you have uploaded on your portal. It could be either of the following; BVN card, National ID card, Driver's license or PVC (Permanent Voters Card)

At the point of collection make sure the device carton is sealed, if tempered do not accept it, then open it to confirm if the device is in a good working condition and make sure all accessories are intact according to SPECIFICATION.  The following accessories includes; Charger, Keyboard (for Tecno, Afrion 2 in 1), Pouch, Memory card, USB cord, User manual and other necessary accessories.

Note that the distributors will not be liable for any claim or complain after collection. 

In view of the above, do not procrastinate, be sure you are at the collection centre as early as possible, some device may come with "factory errors".

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FG withholds stipend of 17 N-Power volunteers

Awka – No fewer than 17 volunteers in the federal government’s job creation scheme, N-Power, will no longer be paid stipends until they explain their truancy from the scheme since their deployment.
Mr Afolabi Imoukhuede, Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the President on Job Creation, made the statement on Thursday in Awka during a meeting between the state’s institutional partners and N-Power Monitoring and Evaluation team.
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“The stipend for 17 volunteers from different states have been on hold since May due to the inability of their supervisors to see them at work for months,’’ he said
The Presidential aide said that the federal government would not continue to shoulder the financial burden of those who failed to understand the scheme and treat it with the seriousness it deserved.
He said that a common trend that ran in some of the states already visited by the M&E team was that volunteers, especially those in N-Agro, failed to keep consistent attendance book.
He added that some of the volunteers logged-in and disappeared without permission.
Imoukhuede told the stakeholders who attended the meeting that log book was key and urged them to ensure effective monitoring of the volunteers under them.
He also urged them to file quarterly reports about the programme to the N-Power office and monthly report on the conduct of volunteers so that those found wanting would be delisted from payment.
He said that in spite of the six-month physical verification done by the National Orientation Agency (NOA) in Anambra, 21 volunteers do not have account records and might be demobilised.
The SSA called on the state to build strong institutional partners to strengthen the scheme to enable the volunteers become employable after two years.
He said: “this is a development-oriented programme for two years per participant.
“Whether the Federal Government wants to continue with it or not after two years, nothing stops the states and local governments from running their own N-power using the structures and resources developed by the federal government.’’
Imoukhuede thanked Gov. Willie Obiano for embracing and supporting the scheme, adding that separation of politics from development would catalyse development in the country.
In his remarks, Mr Mark Okoye, the Commissioner for Economic Planning, Budget and Development, said the Obiano administration had taken ownership of the Social Investment Programmes for efficiency and effectiveness.
He said that the Home Grown School Feeding Programme had achieved 91 per cent success in the state.
He said that 22,000 vulnerable people were registered for the Conditional Cash Transfer and more than 4,000 volunteers deployed in N-Power.
“For us we know what we wanted to do; it has been a rewarding experience.
“We truly want to commend the federal government, specifically President Muhammadu Buhari and Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, for initiating the job-creation scheme for the youths,’’

Kwara Government Organizes Free N-Power Registration, Sensitization for Prospective Kwara Applicants

Kwara State Government on Thursday 22nd June, 2017 organized a sensitization programme for the prospective NPower beneficiaries in Kwara at the State Banquet Hall, opposite Government House, Ilorin. The programme, which was organized through the office of the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed on Youth Empowerment, educated the youths who were interested in applying for scheme.


The SSA Youth Empowerment, Alhaji Saka Babatunde, who disclosed that no fewer than thirty thousand unengaged youths in Kwara State have duly registered in the second phase of the programme, which is a division of Federal Government’s Social Investment Programmes, took time to take the participants through the basic steps of successful registration to become beneficiaries of the empowerment programme.

 Alhaji Babatunde made it known that the drive of the sensitization programme was to guide and enlighten clearly Kwara state youths who are interested in registering and guard against for the past recorded errors which cost beneficiaries hugely. He therefore reiterated to the interested candidates that his office, at the room 220 of Governor’s office Ilorin, is open for free registration and assistance.  He proceeded by further disclosing that Kwara state is far below the target for second phase of N-Power and called resulted in the worry of Kwara state government to ensure that majority of unemployed youths in Kwara state make full use of the opportunity. Hence, the free registration support through his office.


He added that if the target is met, additional sum of six hundred million naira would be coming to the state monthly as wages for beneficiaries. Thereby increasing the economic situation and reducing youth restiveness in the state.

The programme then lasted by a question and answer segment where participants asked questions of grey areas and the governor’s aide gave responses to quench their thirst. The participants were full of appreciation to Kwara State government on the programme as many explained their ordeal in their previous unsuccessful registrations. They also promised to make use of the opportunity provided through the office of the Senior Special Assistant on Youth Empowerment to Governor Ahmed of Kwara state, Alhaji Saka Babatunde, to register in enmasse and increase the quota of Kwara in the federal government’s empowerment programme.