NPower: Over 30,000 volunteers get federal jobs

The Federal Government has said about 73,000 exited N-Power volunteers have been trained.

Out of that number, 30,000 of them have been deployed to 774 local government areas as agric enumerators.

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Sabo Nanono, confirmed this on Monday.

This was part of the minister’s report on progress in the implementation of the Economic Sustainability Plan, ESP, of the Buhari Administration as Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, presides over a meeting of the Economic Sustainability Committee at the Presidential Villa.

He noted that “for the enumeration which involved geospatial tagging, almost 73,000 N-Power volunteers were trained and 30,000 of them deployed to 774 Local Government Areas.

For the purposes of funding through the CBN, Nanono disclosed that 2.9million of the farmers have had their BVN enrollment validated.

Also, according to him, the clearing of 3,200 hectares of land for farming is ongoing in several States including Edo, Plateau, Ekiti, Cross River, Ogun, Kaduna, Kwara, and Osun States while rural road constructions have reached about 28% completion covering 344km, linking about 500 markets across the country.