Tag: BVN
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N-Power: Earlier registrations on portal null and void, says job office
The office of the Job Creation and Empowerment Initiative of the Social Investment Programme of the Nigerian Government has said earlier registrations made on the N-Power portal are null and void. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports this information is contained on the official Twitter account of the Job Creation and Empowerment Initiative of the Social Investment Programme…
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N-Power portal opens for Batch C enrolment
The Federal Government has said the enrolment for Batch C beneficiaries of the N-Power Programme under the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) will begin from June 26. Hajiya Sadiya Farouq, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, made the announcement in a statement signed by the Deputy Director of Information in the…
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IPPIS: ASUU rejects submission of BVN as condition for payment of withheld salaries
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it has rejected the submission of Bank Verification Number (BVN) as a condition for payment of February and March withheld salaries of lectures in the Federal Universities. Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, ASUU President, said this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja.…
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COVID-19 lockdown: FG agrees to use BVN in identifying poor, vulnerable Nigerians
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Sadiya Farouq has said the Federal Government is expanding the social register for palliative distribution by employing digital models including the use of Bank Verification Number (BVN). The Minister disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja, while responding to questions at Presidential Task Force briefing on COVID-19. She…
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Tinubu to FG: Pay economic relief funds to Nigerians through BVN
National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has urged the Federal Government to make cash payments to households through Bank Verification Numbers (BVN) to cushion the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on Nigerians. Tinubu gave the advice in a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday. He said payments could be made quickly by using…
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Lockdown Extension: Using BVN for social intervention programme – Carl Umegboro
By Carl Umegboro The extension of the lockdown for another 2 weeks by President Muhammadu Buhari is not a bad idea on account that other counties affected by the dreadful coronavirus contagion; codenamed Covid-19 are still under lockdown. Even countries that are more advanced in science and technology than Nigeria are all adopting the same…
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FG not giving Nigerians with BVN N30,000 -Adesina
Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina has discredited report that Nigerians with bank verification number (BVN) will be given N30,000 as relief fund. The report, which went viral on Friday, said Adesina issued a statement to that effect. The said amount was to help Nigerians “stock up their home during the stay-at-home order by the…
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Bank Verification: Bauchi uncovers 596 ghost workers on payroll
The Committee set up by Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State to verify workers without Bank Verification Number (BVN) said it uncovered 596 dead officers on the government payroll. The Chairman of the committee, Sen. Adamu Gumba, disclosed this at a news conference in Bauchi on Monday. “In the process of this exercise, we discovered…
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36.8m bank accounts linked to BVN – NIBSS
Records from he Nigerian Interbank Settlement Scheme (NIBSS) have shown that about 36.8 million bank accounts have been linked to the Bank Verification Number (BVN). This represents 51 per cent of the total number of active bank accounts as of February 17 2019. The number of active bank accounts, according to the NIBSS data, is…