FG commences stipend payments to all jobless Nigerian graduates

President Bola Tinubu’s administration has announced plans to pay monthly stipends to unemployed Nigerian graduates.

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, revealed this during a courtesy visit by the Charismatic Bishop Conference to his office in Abuja. Idris stated that President Tinubu is working on a policy to provide financial support to young university and polytechnic graduates who are yet to secure employment.

This is pending their formal employment in any sector of the economy.

“There is also another new policy that the President has formulated, which will begin to be seen very soon and that is that all young men and women who have finished universities and polytechnics and have certificates and have done their mandatory NYSC and have not been able to get jobs, will have something from the government to keep them afloat until the time they get jobs,” he said.

He said while Nigerians have the constitutionally guaranteed right to protest, the government was aware some people were planning to hijack the demonstration to cause trouble.