The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, has disclosed that the ongoing enrolment exercise for the Batch C scheme of the N-Power programme which started on June 26 would now close on August 8.

The minister, who made the disclosure via her Twitter handle on Sunday night, said over 5 million applications had so far been received for the scheme.

The Federal Government plans to enrol 400,000 applicants in the Batch C scheme, Daily Nigerian reports.