500,000
jobs are available for unemployed graduates, and another 100,000 jobs
for non-graduates as the President Buhari-led federal government today,
kicked off its 500,000 free jobs for Nigerians.
In a statement signed by Laolu Akande, the Senior Special Assistant
to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, the President Muhammadu
Buhari-led federal government is set to begin taking applications online
for positions in the 500,000 direct teacher jobs scheme, through an
internet portal named npower.gov.ng.
The statement from the vice president office said on Wednesday that
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;
Below is the statement in full;
“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.”
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