Federal Government Begins Recruitment Of 500,000 Unemployed Graduates (READ DETAILS

Young unemployed Nigerians are advised to visit the
website (npower.gov.ng )and apply, a statement by
the vice president office said on Wednesday
 Muhammad Buhari had in his May 29 Democracy
Day broadcast to the nation formally launched the
“unprecedented social investment programmes
already provided for under the 2016 Appropriation
by the administration.”
The 500,000 Teacher Corps, nicknamed N-Power
Teach on the portal, is one of the three direct job
creation and training schemes Nigerians can start
applying for from Sunday, June 12.
Others are N-Power Knowledge, which will train
25,000 Nigerians in the area of technology, and N-
Power Build, which train another 75,000 in the areas
of building services, construction, utilities, hospitality
and catering, automotive vocations, aluminium and
gas services.
All trainees would be paid for the duration of their
training, the statement said.
The statement, signed by the Senior Special Assistant
to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Laolu
Akande, added, “The N-Power Teacher Corps
initiative, which will engage and train 500,000 young
unemployed graduates, is a paid volunteer
programme of a two-year duration.
“Unemployed Nigerians selected and trained will
serve in teaching, instructional, and advisory roles in
primary, and secondary schools, agricultural
extension systems across the country, public health
and community education — covering civic and adult
education.
“Besides their monthly take home pay estimated at
about N23,000, the selected 500,000 graduates will
also get computer devices that will contain
information necessary for their specific engagement,
as well as information for their continuous training
and development. They get to keep the devices even
after exiting the programme.
“According to the plan of the Buhari administration,
the N-Power Teacher Corps programme is an
invaluable opportunity for young Nigerians to make
immense economic and social contributions to the
nation while developing their skills. It will also help to
address the problems of inadequate teachers in
public schools.
“Also, persons enlisted under the scheme will gain
work experience and acquire key competencies
through academic and non-academic capacity
building programmes intended to improve their
competitiveness in the workplace. Their devices will
come loaded with knowledge-oriented applications
and software that will enable them acquire the skills
and capacity.
“Under the N-Power Knowledge scheme, there are
three aspects: Creative, Technology Software and
Hardware. These three sub-divisions would will train
25,000 young Nigerians in all.
“Five thousand of them would be trained in
animation, graphic design, post-production, script-
writing. All of those under the sub-division of N-
Power Knowledge-creative category.
“The N-Power Knowledge scheme also has a
technology category in two aspects: hardware and
software. Ten thousand Nigerians will be trained, and
equipped in the area of software development,
including web designers, and another 10,000 in
hardware expertise, including to repair, maintain and
assemble mobile phones, tablets, computers and
other devices.
“Also the N-Power Build category was designed
realizing that the presence of a well-trained and
highly skilled youth population in any economy has
direct impact on entrepreneurship/wealth creation,
which in turn leads to a decline in unemployment.
“N-Power Build is therefore an accelerated training
and certification (Skills to Job/Enterprise) programme
that will engage and train 75,000 young unemployed
Nigerians in order to build a new crop of skilled and
highly competent workforce of technicians, artisans
and service professionals.
“There are other schemes in the Buhari presidency
Social Investment Programmes which would soon be
rolled out in the coming weeks.
These include the Conditional Cash Transfer that pays
N5000 monthly to one million Nigerians, the Micro-
Credit Scheme for more than 1.5 million Nigerians,
the Home Grown School Feeding programme that
will serve 5.5 million Nigerian pupils in primary
school a free hot meal per day this year and the
Education Support Grant Programme for 100,000
tertiary students in Science Technology Engineering &
Mathematics, STEM and education. Source Gist Mania