Stipend: We won’t pay N5000 to indolent people – Labour Minister
January 15, 2016
The Federal Government has categorically stated that it cannot afford to pay lazy Nigerians the N5000 stipend promised to the unemployed, revealing that it will review the scheme to ensure that potential beneficiaries use the money for productive purposes.
Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, who made the disclosure while speaking to journalists at the APC secretariat in Abuja, revealed that while some people will get N5000 under cash conversion scheme, some will get N10,000, while others may get more than N15,000 while training.
Ngige further explained that some beneficiaries will go through different training programmes before getting employed by either the state or federal government.
“We also have the programme on commission cash transfer… We won’t pay N5000 for people to be indolent. No country in the world would pay people to go home and sleep and collect cash, so Nigeria would not be an exception.
“We will pay some people N5000, pay some N10,000, and for people in teacher conversion scheme, we will pay more than N10,000 – N15,000 as stipend while in training and then after the training they are going to be employed by the state and federal government in different institutions.
“It is not a programme we shall run alone. The state governments are going to buy into it, they are going to synchronize with us. We are going to do it in synergy,” the Minister explained.
January 15, 2016
The Federal Government has categorically stated that it cannot afford to pay lazy Nigerians the N5000 stipend promised to the unemployed, revealing that it will review the scheme to ensure that potential beneficiaries use the money for productive purposes.
Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, who made the disclosure while speaking to journalists at the APC secretariat in Abuja, revealed that while some people will get N5000 under cash conversion scheme, some will get N10,000, while others may get more than N15,000 while training.
Ngige further explained that some beneficiaries will go through different training programmes before getting employed by either the state or federal government.
“We also have the programme on commission cash transfer… We won’t pay N5000 for people to be indolent. No country in the world would pay people to go home and sleep and collect cash, so Nigeria would not be an exception.
“We will pay some people N5000, pay some N10,000, and for people in teacher conversion scheme, we will pay more than N10,000 – N15,000 as stipend while in training and then after the training they are going to be employed by the state and federal government in different institutions.
“It is not a programme we shall run alone. The state governments are going to buy into it, they are going to synchronize with us. We are going to do it in synergy,” the Minister explained.
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