N-Power: See The Full Breakdown Of Volunteers Nationwide
The Job Creation and Empowerment Initiative of the Social Investment Programme of the Nigerian Government, N-Power [Photo: N-Power/Twitter]The N-Power scheme, one of the Social Investment Programmes of the Nigerian Government kicked off nationwide in 2016.
Concise News reports that the scheme currently engages no fewer than 500,000 youth graduates deployed to provide public health services in teaching, health, agriculture and tax and monitoring.
It also engages another 200,000 non-graduates in training or on attachment to organisations as interns.
The breakdown of the volunteers, according to Daily Trust shows the following figures:
Abia State – 11,285
FCT State – 14,116
Adamawa State – 11,620
Akwa Ibom State – 12,278
Anambra State – 14,903
Bauchi State – 13,075
Bayelsa State – 10,561
Benue State – 18,000
Borno State – 12,766
Cross River State – 11,012
Delta State – 17,810
Ebonyi State – 10,561
Edo State – 12,340
Ekiti State – 10,563
Enugu State – 16,542
Gombe State – 10,909
Imo State – 12,394
Jigawa State – 11,365
Kaduna State – 18,000
Kano State – 18002
Katsina State -13,313
Kebbi State – 10,559
Kogi State – 12,211
Kwara State – 13,154
Lagos State – 17,998
Nasarawa State – 12,504
Niger State – 12,776
Ogun State – 15,563
Ondo State – 13,460
Osun State – 17,999
Oyo State – 18,001
Plateau State – 11,700
Rivers State – 17,987
Sokoto State – 10,903
Taraba State – 10,914 or 11,296 (this online news medium cannot verify the actual figure of this state yet)
Zamfara State -10,560