Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq, said on Saturday that the Federal Government had no plans to absorb beneficiaries of the N-Power Programme into the Federal Civil Service.
The clarification is coming on the heals of reports in the social media that some beneficiaries of the N-power programme would be absorbed into the federal civil service.
Farouq, in a statement by the Deputy Director in the Ministry, Mrs. Rhoda Ilaya, therefore warned Nigerians to be wary of fake news about absorption of N-Power beneficiaries Batch A into the Federal Civil Service.
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She said: “The attention of the Ministry has been drawn to the fake news trending on social media that President Muhammadu Buhari will on June 12 broadcast to the nation the absorption of N-POWER Volunteers Batch A, into the Federal Civil Service.
“The Ministry is hereby calling on the public to disregard the message and consider it as fake news.
“Any information on N-Power or the National Social Investment Programme will be issued through the appropriate channels.
