The Minister of State for Labour, Employment and Productivity, Festus Keyamo (SAN), on Saturday announced that President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the release of the funds for the payment of stipends to the 774,000 participants of the ongoing Special Public Works (SPW) Programme across the country.
This disclosure was contained in a statement issued by Keyamo through tweet posts on his official Twitter handle.
The minister said that he has directed the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) to begin processing the payments adding that participants should begin to receive payments soon.
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Keyamo also pointed out that directed that every payment to participants should be made using the Bank Verification Number (BVN) of their accounts in order to eliminate fraud and/or double payments.
This will also assist the government in having an audit trail of every single payment.
The statement from Keyamo reads, “President Muhammadu Buhari has graciously directed a release of the funds for the payment of stipends to the 774,000 participants of the SPW programme. I have consequently directed the NDE to begin processing the payments and participants should begin to receive payments soon.
“In order to eliminate fraud and/or double payments, I have also directed that every payment to participants should be made using the BVN of their accounts so we can have an audit trail of every single payment. Those who registered with different names should not expect payments.”
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What you should know
- It can be recalled that the SPW programme which was designed to engage 774,000 unemployed Nigerians was flagged off nationwide on January 5, 2021, after several postponements.
- While N52 billion was appropriated for the scheme, each of the 774,000 workers is expected to earn N20,000 monthly for the three-month duration of the job, amounting to about N46.44bn.
- The take-off of the programme has not been without some controversies as members of the National Assembly had asked the Federal Government to suspend it due to disagreement with the supervising minister, Festus Keyamo, over who should supervise the programme.
Please pay us our salaries
Things are very hard
Since December 2020 will register for NDE
I put all hope on it
A graduate no employment
when our sellary been payed for S P W pleased .
Why are not being payment
have not seen any alert. pls we need d money
What hepen to our sellary
Sçàm evérywhére
Ñigérià àñd íts fràúduleñt àct
Ekene vincent ike pls we need our
What hepen to our sellary
what hap to our LG we have no see alert at katcha
Sir, please zenith bank are not paying us and I don’t know what is happening to zenith bank they should try and pay us the stipend so that we can use and support ourselves. Thanks
Ur excellency Sir,
in taraba state, some have received there money, but others eg me have not received any money. FCMB have stop paying they consider doing business with d money, its know two month I sees no alert despite I’m with my FCMB acct no, verification/bank details have been set up n also with ATM Which was free given to us by FG, pls look in to our issue in taraba state so as them to pay us pls.
when did zenith bank release our NDE stepend money we are waiting for our alart immedetle
Sçàm evérywhére
Ñigérià àñd íts fràúduleñt àct
God will put everything in ur hand
Stil we are waiting for first alart
Sir, we did not recieve any alart in fcmb bank from jigawa state pls tell them to pay us immadiatly before the end of this month.
We have not received any alert from access Bank in owerri west , please what is the problem, Nwosu Ekene precious spw owerri west
We have not seen alert at access bank at shaki
What is happening!?
About four months! NO alerts..
Wil did not see any money at kaiama what is is happen pls
in bayo local government we are not see our alert, what happened?sir look us please we are in bat situation
No info about bayelsa? Am loosing patients
We ar patiently waiting, to recieve the first rain.
We are waiting for our second payment at Oyo state fidelity bank
we have not collect any money at all in oyo east zenith bank
we have not received our first payment oyo east zenith bank
we are yet to received d first payments oh @ fidelity bank, kogi state.
please sir,
my name is in the list and i submitted my passport and BVN but I didn’t receive any SMS from the bank yet please what is happening or what can I do now
We are dieying here in nasarawa state.please we need the money. Anzakson.
Mr president please do something about SPW Payment nigerian’s are suffering pls.
We are fidility bank i recieve first alart.but i dont know by wich time i should recieve second aleat pls we bad situation
What is the problem up to now not not good s.p.w nawa for naija wo
Pls sir, mistake was made on my acc which i corrected with NDE office umuahia. Yet, i ve never recieve alart
Sir please what is the difference between been a participant and you not been registered? Cause my name is on the list but is still reflecting online here not registered.
Alhamdulila
Pls is extend to next year
Sir, is there any loan process now ?
Sir, pls help us talk to the heritage bank in kogi state to pls provide us our neccessary details like ATM & ALERT message, and their services is too poor, we don’t even have assess to our acct unless we hear from others beneficiaries of programme,
I AM IN ACCESS BANK BUT I DONT RECEIVE AN ALERT?
SIR MY NAME IS IDRIS SHAIBU WHY WE DID RECEIVE ANYTHINT FROM CHIBOK B.O NG
Sir i am in first bank but0 am not receive an alert help me sir
Believed me my brother.. Federal government fixed the money to generate more interest…. the banker’s ceo is aware of this statement… the money is here but they fixed it for short period of time to generate more money from it…. Everybody is a scammer in this country.
me of to now i dont know anyting from dis programms wy
Let them countue paying the 20,000 since there’s no job for our graduates please, let it be like n.power.
FROM L/SOUTH PLATEAU, WE NEED MONEY NOW NOT SOON
Am using FCMB bank have not received any alert since. KWARA state
ITS SPW HAS CONCLUDED THEIR PROGRAMME OR THEY CAN STILL PAY THEM JULY/AUGUST STIPENDS SALARY.
have received mine, thanks to the federal government
Were wetting for second payment
Alhamdulillah