FMHDS has given an important update on the increment of Npower Beneficiaries to 5M.
Newsonline reports that the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs has denied the News circulating online that President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the humanitarian Ministry to increase Npower Beneficiaries from 1million to 5million as reported by punch newspaper.
FMHDS Gives Important Update On Increment Of Npower Beneficiaries To 5M
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According to the news, Humanitarian Affairs Minister, Sadiya Farouq, said that President Buhari directed her ministry to accommodate more N–Power beneficiaries, adding that Batch-C of the scheme, which admitted over one million persons, had been inaugurated.
The news also stated that she disclosed this at the handing over of feeding utensils by the humanitarian ministry to beneficiaries of the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme, another NSIP scheme, in Nasarawa State.
In her remarks at the event, she said this is in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s directives for the expansion of the programme to accommodate an additional five million beneficiaries.
However, prospective applicants of the Npower Programme who are yet to benefit from the Programme took the news as a good development not knowing that it was a fake news.
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