PROSPECTS ANDCHALLENGES OF PUBLIC POLICY PROGRAMME IN NIGERIA:A STUDY OF N-POWER PROGRAMEIN BAYELSA STATE.

Abeki Sunny Okoro (PhD)

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The study examined the success and problems o of N-Power programmes in Bayelsa State. On  poverty . Survey design was used in this study to generate data. A sample of 377  respondents were studied. After going through them 322 copies (i.e. 95.25% response rate) were found useful for the data analysis. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse data in this study. The study found that the major N-Power programmes used towards Poverty alleviation in Bayelsa State   included: N-Power Teach, N-Power Build, N-Power Creative, N-Power Agro, N-Power Tech Software N-Power Tax, N-Power Health and N-Power Tech Hardware. The study revealed that N-Power Programmes’   beneficiaries were mainly graduates. The study found that the  programme  did generated employment to beneficiaries but not to the extent of reducing poverty, due to certain problems  that affected the implementation of N-Power programmes included: Insufficient information, non-payment of stipend to participants as at when due, bribery and corruption, wrong bank verification number (BVN), overbearing hands of politicians in the programme etc. It is evident and conclusive that: The programme if effectively implemented, can generate employment and reduce poverty.Based on this , the study suggest that transparency and more fund be injected into the programme to accommofate many beneficiaries.


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