FG'S GRADUATE TEACHERS' JOBS: 403,528 register in 36 hours
The worrisome unemployment situation in Nigeria again came to the fore
on Sunday and yesterday as job seekers invaded the Federal
Government’s website portal for the graduate teachers’ jobs scheme.
Within the first 36 hours of the launch of the jobs’ website to recruit
the promised 500,000 graduate teachers, 403,528 applicants
successfully registered for the scheme.
The portal (N-Power.gov.ng), which was opened on Sunday, is operated by the Job Creation Unit in the Presidency.
The number of applicants who have successfully registered for the
programme was disclosed by the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.
In a statement on Monday, the Acting President’s Office said:
“We have been very impressed by the enthusiastic response to the call
for applications. As at noon on Monday, June 13, only 36 hours after the
launch of the portal, 403,528 applicants had successfully registered on
the site and were in the middle of completing the application process.
“We are also very pleased that the registrations have been taking place
without hitches or system failures, considering the volume of
response,” the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job
Creation, Mr. Afolabi Imoukhede, said.
Altogether, the website has received over 35 million hits since Saturday midnight, he added.
The Jobs Scheme, known as ‘N-Power’, is one of the five initiatives of
the Social Investment Programme of the Federal Government, described
by President Muhammadu Buhari in his Democracy Day Speech as “by far
the most ambitious social protection programme in our history.”
A total sum of N500 billion has been provided for the programme in the 2016 Budget, a milestone in Nigeria’s budget history.
N-Power is designed to help young Nigerians acquire and develop skills
to become solution providers in their communities and to become
players in the domestic and global market.
It will provide employment opportunities for 500,000 graduates as
teachers, agriculture extension advisers, healthcare assistants, and
civic and adult education instructors in communities across Nigeria.
There will also be a pool of 100,000 software developers, hardware
service professionals, animators, graphic artists, building services
professionals, artisans and others.
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