FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COMMENCES RECRUITMENT OF 500,000 UNEMPLOYED GRADUATES

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COMMENCES
RECRUITMENT OF 500,000 UNEMPLOYED
GRADUATES AS TEACHERS (ALL TRAINEES
WOULD EVEN BE PAID FOR THE DURATION OF
THEIR TRAINING).
08-06-2016
In what is the first roll-out of its N500b social
investment programmes, the Buhari presidency
will start taking applications online for positions
in the 500,000 direct teacher jobs scheme,
through an internet portal named
NPOWER.GOV.NG
http://npower.gov.ng
While the portal would be live on Saturday June
11, applications are expected to start coming in
on June 12, the beginning of next week. Young
unemployed Nigerians are advised to visit the
website and apply.
It would be recalled that President Muhammadu
Buhari in his May 29th 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 N-Power Teacher Corps initiative which will
engage and train 500,000 young unemployed
graduates, is a paid volunteer programme of a 2-
year duration. Unemployed Nigerians selected and
trained will play 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 from 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.
5000 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. 10,000 Nigerians would 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.
The 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
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