FG to disengage 200, 000 beneficiaries of N-Power

By Bimbo Ogunnaike with agency report

The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Investment, Maryam Uwais, has disclosed that the Federal Government was working on how to  disengage  over 200,000 beneficiaries of the government’s social intervention programme, N-Power.

Uwais, who made the disclosure while featuring on Nigerian Television Authority,(NTA), added that the government was in talks with the Finance ministry on the next plan for those to be disengaged from the programme.

“We are trying to see how we can address some of these gaps through these N-power beneficiaries that are meant to be disengaged by end of the year. We are looking out loans to be made available to them, it has not be finalized yet with the finance ministry,” she said.