Payment Of N5,000 To Unemployed Youths Will Begin Next Year- Dalong

The All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government,
yesterday, said the payment of the N5,000 stipend to the unemployed Nigerian
youths will commence next year.

It regretted that the payment could not take off immediately
because it was not included in this year’s budget.

Minister of Youths and Sports, Mr Solomon Dalong, revealed
this yesterday in Abuja when he paid a condolence visit to the national
chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, at
the national secretariat in Abuja. Continue…

“I would want the youths to understand that every promise
must be backed up by budgetary provision and our promise to pay N5000 is not
contained in the 2015 budget. So, definitely, it is going to begin in 2016 as
we have made budgetary allocations for that.

“We are committed to the campaign promises of creating jobs,
providing wealth creation and combat poverty. We have embedded in our manifesto
things that we are translating to reality.

“We are busy reviewing some of the youth empowerment
programmes that are ongoing,  to ensure
that they are more viable and people oriented. We are also looking at the
possibility of realigning some of them to our vision so that in the final
analysis, it can add value to the people,” he said.