FG Confirms Payment Of N5000 Stipend To Unemployed Youth Next Year

The All Progressives Congress, APC, led Federal

Government yesterday said that the payment of the N5000

stipend to the unemployed Nigerians will commence next

year.

It regretted that the payment could not take off now due

to non budgetary provisions.

Minister of Youth and Sports, Barrister 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 nationL secretariat in Abuja on the demise of Prince

Abubakar Audu, the erstwhile governorship candidate of

the party in Kogi State election.

Dalong who spoke with Journalists assured that APC

government would also create more jobs to fulfill its

campaign promises.

Source: Vanguard