Comparative Assessment of N-Power Agro Programme on Youth Empowerment in Edo and Delta States, Nigeria

Delay in payment of stipend to participants, long distance to area of primary assignment, shortage of extension agents, mismanagement of funds, insufficient information about the programme, bribery and corruption among staff, overbearing hands of politicians in the programme, poor funding, and pattern of recruitment of the participants were the serious challenges to implementation of the programme. [...] It is recommended that government should increase the awareness campaign on importance of the programme as a solution to poverty, and also ensure prompt and timely payment of the stipends to beneficiaries of the programme. [...] In essence, one of the objectives of the programme was to boost the human capital of the Nigerian labour force. [...] Results and Discussion Levels of Youths’ Participation in the Various Activities of N-Agro Programme Table 1 shows the distribution of respondents according to levels of participation in the various activities of the N-Agro programme. [...] Daura, Joel and Audu (2020) identified mismanagement of funds allocated to the running of daily affairs of the scheme, placement of enrolees especially graduates from the arts and social sciences disciplines were major problems confronting the implementation of the scheme.