In a bid to tackle the issue of unemployment in Nigeria the Federal Government has said a total of 200,000 graduates will be given full employment in effect from December 1, 2016.
According to multiple reports, the graduates have been employed as teachers, agriculture and health workers.
In a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, the names of the qualified and selected graduates had been sent to states and the Federal Capital Territory for deployment.
Akande stated: "All
together, the N-Power will engage and train 500,000 young unemployed
graduates. It's a paid volunteering programme of a 2-year duration that
engages graduates in their immediate communities where they'll assist in
improving the inadequacies in the education, health and agriculture
sectors.
"The 500,000 graduates under
the N-Power Corps programme will be trained in skills that'll enable
them exit after two years to economically viable job and business
opportunities. As part of the programme, the participants will own
tablets that'll contain information necessary for their specific
engagements as well as information for their continuous training and
developments.
"Participants will be
provided with teaching, instructional and advisory solutions in 4 main
focus areas, and will be paid a monthly stipend of N30,000 during the
programme. The 4 main focus areas are in basic education, agriculture
extension services, public health and community education (civic and
adult education).
"Besides the N-Power
programme for undergraduates, there are other schemes for non-graduates.
These are: N-Power Knowledge, which would select 25,000 young Nigerians
and N-Power Build 75,000 all of whom shall be trained and paid during
the duration of the scheme," Akande said.
The
VP's spokesman also said state governments and the FCT were encouraged
to post the names of the successful first batch applicants in their
local government areas pending further public announcements.
In his words: "Between
now and the end of the month, the states and the FCT would be engaged
in deploying the graduates who would formally start working and earning
their stipends on December 1, 2016."
Akande
explained that of the 200,000 first batch, 150,000 of them would teach,
30,000 would work in the agricultural sector and 20,000 in healthcare
delivery.
politics, federal government, unemployment, Graduate employment
