NPOWER: FG SPENDS OVER N360BN YEARLY ON EMPOWERMENT OF GRADUATES, NON-GRADUATES • Employs 510,000 youths in Batch C1 The Federal Government, on Wednesday, reiterated its resolve towards adequate funding of various schemes under the National Social Investment Programmes (NSIPs), including N-Power programmes aimed at reducing poverty and unemployment rate across the country. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, gave the assurance in Abuja while delivering a farewell message at the end of the 6 weeks N-Knowledge training component of the N-Power Programme for Batch C1, held across the 6 geopolitical zones of the country. Under the arrangement, no fewer than 3,000 Nigerian youths including People Living With Disabilities (PLWD) drawn from the North Central geopolitical zone of the federation have been trained by Federal Government on various vocational skills. The beneficiaries who were drawn from Plateau, Kogi, Nasarawa, Ben