FG confirms payment of N5000 stipend to unemployed youth next year

ABUJA – 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: vgr