The federal government has selected 500,000 persons for the N-Power Batch C1 programme. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq gave this disclosure yesterday while giving update on the National Social Investment Management System (NASIMS). She said by third week of last month, over 1.8 million Nigerians successfully updated their records and took the compulsory online test. According to the minister, the second batch of another 500,000 will subsequently be made in line with the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to engage 1,000,000 beneficiaries under the Batch C. She added that the 550,000 short-listed applicants were being individually contacted via their e-mail addresses provided and were advised to check and then immediately log on to the NASIMS self-service portal and enrol their biometric data to qualify for final selection.