Come 2016, the Federal Government would commence payment
of N5,000 promised unemployed Nigerian youth during the electioneering
campaign, from 2016.
The minister of youth and sports, Solomon Dalong,said this on Wednesday when he paid a condolence visit on the national
chairman of the APC, John
Odigie-Oyegun, over the death of Abubakar Audu.
Mr. Dalong,who spoke to journalists during the visit, said
“I would want the youth to understand that every promise must be
backed up by budgetary provision and our promise to pay N5000 is not
contained in the 2015 budget. So, definitely, it is going to begin in
2016 as we have made budgetary allocations for that“We are committed to the campaign promises of creating jobs,
providing wealth and combat poverty. We have embedded in our manifesto
things that we are translating to reality.”