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Claim: A Facebook page posted on August 24th that N-power has started shortlisting its candidates.

This claim is true, as it was confirmed by one of the candidates and also posted on the N-power website.

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As seen above, a Facebook page, Badarubala Tv with over 100 followers posted on August 24th, a “breaking news.” This post informed the public that NPower has started shortlisting candidates for the two-year programme. The post asked readers to dial a provided code to check their N-Power status. Since being published, this post has generated over 50 shares and one comment. 

The only comment on the post reads: “I check by showing data not found in pre-selected document.” This comment as well as the ‘Breaking News’’ tag on the post (which is reminiscent of fake platforms) calls for scepticism and the urgent need to fact-check.

Verification 

Setting out to check this claim, Dubawa found reports from thenationonlineng and legit.ng both supporting the claims registered in the Facebook post.  

Both news platforms reported that the minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development,  Sadiya  Farouq, on August 23 has announced the inauguration of  N-Power Batch C (stream 1 ) at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

Farouq reportedly said 450,000 have been selected (out of the about six million applications received from applicants) to benefit under the graduate component for Batch C stream 1. She added that the USSD ‘ *45665# ‘ has been secured to provide the connectivity and technical help for the provision of information services to beneficiaries of the programme.  

The claims were further affirmed to be true on the N-power website as shortlisted candidates were asked to enrol their biometric data to qualify them for the final stage of the N-power Batch C (stream 1) programme. 

Further, Joshua  Ezra, who is an applicant for the N-power programme, said it is true, adding that the exercise has started since June. 

“They flagged up the programme on Monday.  They have been shortlisting since June. This time around, they flagged up the programme but we are yet to be deployed to our place of primary assignment, ” he said.  

Conclusion 

The claim by Badarubala Tv that N-power has shortlisted names of candidates is true.

The global pandemic which broke out in Wuhan China in December 2019 has on March 1, 2021, affected 219 Countries around the world with a total of 114,872,386 confirmed cases and a death toll of 2,546,807. Nigeria is not left out as it recorded its first case in February 2020. So far, Nigeria has recorded more than 155,000 cases and over 1,900 deaths.

Vaccine efforts

Since the emergence of vaccines, at least seven different vaccines across three platforms have been rolled out in many countries. Outside this, there are more than 200 vaccines being developed, of which more than 60 are in the clinical stage.

To curb the spread of the virus, the Nigerian government has been making efforts to purchase and make available coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines in the 1st Quarter of 2021. The government has announced that it is expecting 16 million doses of the Astrazeneca vaccine through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Assess Facility (COVAX), a World Health Organisation-backed programme set-up to divide about two billion doses of vaccines across 92 low-and middle-income countries. Four million doses of these vaccines were announced to arrive Tuesday March 2, 2021. 

Nigeria’s vaccination strategy

On Monday, the ministry of health launched the T.E.A.C.H strategy for COVID-19 vaccination. This was announced on Twitter by the ministry of health and NPHCDA.

According to the health ministry, the T.E.A.C.H is an acronym for a five-point strategy developed by the vaccination implementation arm of the Ministry of Health out of the many years of vaccination implementation experience in Nigeria.

The

T in the acronym stands for Traditional Vaccination Campaign Approach,

E for Electronic Self-Registration by Eligible Nigerians,

A for Assisted Electronic Registration of Eligible Nigerians,

C for Concomitant Vaccination alongside Electronic Registration

H for House-to-House Electronic Registration.

The vaccine rollout will be in four phases, starting with frontline health workers and strategic leadership, followed by people 50 years and above with priority given to people with comorbidities, then people between the age of 18 -49 years with comorbidities, and the rest of the eligible population (people between 18 years to 49 years without comorbidities).

What is Comorbidities?

Comorbidities is the presence of two or more conditions occurring in a person, either at the same time, or successively (right after the other). 

Conditions described as comorbidities are often long-term (chronic) conditions like diabetes, obesity, mental illness, high blood pressure etc.

How to register for vaccination

To register for vaccination, visit the NPHCDA website and click on COVID-19  Vaccination E-registration. You can also call 0803 123 0415 and 0803 123 0416 for more information. 

The portal known as the Electronic Management of Immunization Data (EMID) registration portal is the registration platform of the Federal Ministry of Health for COVID 19 Vaccination. This portal captures your data and schedules you for COVID 19 vaccination.

The registration form requires you to answer 14 questions in 14 fields. The first is your name, followed by your contact phone number, email address, date of birth (if it is known or unknown), sex, your type of Identification, residential address, your state of residence, Local Government Area (LGA) of residence, Ward of residence, preferred date of vaccination, preferred time of vaccination, a photo of your (face only), if you work in the health sector, your allergy history and a 3 digit number to be entered after which you submit.

Some Nigerians have jumped on the train and gotten themselves a date for vaccination starting with Mrs Osindeinde Ademilayo Abodede, a frontline health care professional whose registration was announced by NPHCDA’s on Twitter.

Another person with registration for vaccination is, Bashir Ahmed,  the personal assistant to the president on digital and new media, made known his registration on Twitter.

Screenshot of Bashir Ahmed’s Tweet.