N-power: Farouk promises timely Stipend payment and much more through the NASIMS portal

The Honourable Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouk, has stated that the NASIMS Portal www.nasims.gov.ng would solve the problem of Stipend delay which has in the past been a major source of complaint by the beneficiaries of the N-power Programme.

The Minister made this known, Monday, in her ministry's weekly update tittled "My week in Review" while enumerating the importance of the National Social Investment Management System (NASIMS) platform in the implementation of the N-SIP mandate.

According to the Minister, "through the NASIMS portal, beneficiaries will receive their stipends on time, have access to a wide range of industry-specific content for leveraging enterprise learning, communicate their concerns & receive prompt feedback from the program implementation teams."

Farouk pointed out that "the N-power programme is a critical component of the FG's National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) & supports the FG's vision of lifting 100 Nigerians out of poverty over 10 years. The objective remains to upskill young Nigerians for employment or entrepreneurship."

"The NASIMS platform will help ensure transparency, institutional memory, and dynamic impact assessment of the N-Power cluster, Batch C, thus providing seamless interaction between the programme and beneficiaries," she added.

The Minister further disclosed that the N-Power Batch C is structured to onboard one million beneficiaries beginning with an initial 500,000 in the first stream and another 500,000 in the second stream adding that the NASIMS platform will facilitate seamless beneficiary verification, including an efficient transition and exit management plan that will enable beneficiaries to be migrated automatically to the NEXIT Program for POSSIBLE placement and employment opportunities with FG agencies.

"The NASIMS platform will also facilitate seamless beneficiary verification, including an efficient transition & exit management plan that will enable beneficiaries to be migrated automatically to the NEXIT Program for POSSIBLE placement & employment opportunities with FG agencies.

"The N-Power Batch C is structured to onboard one million beneficiaries beginning with an initial 500,000 in the first stream & another 500,000 in the second stream. The Batch-C registration portal opened on June 26th, 2020.

"All applicants for Batch C are required to log onto the N-power self-service portal on www.nasims.gov.ng and update their records after which they will proceed to take the mandatory online test to progress to the next level of selection," Farouk stated.