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More than 750,000 graduates apply for N-Power jobs in 5 days

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More than 750,000 graduates applied for jobs at the Buhari administration’s N-Power recruitment scheme in just 5 days, according to  Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job creation, Mr Afolabi Imoukhuede.

Imoukhuede disclosed that the number of graduate applicants in the N-Power job recruitment scheme as at June 18, is a record 753,307,  which has  exceeded by 2307, the number of both graduate and non-graduate applicants in 2016.

He said that the figure for 2017 was generated barely five days after the application was opened on June 14, while the applications for the previous year were got during the two and half months it was opened.

He said the reason for the large number of applications might be because “a lot of graduates now have faith in the scheme unlike last year when many were a bit skeptical and refused to apply.’’

According to the SSA, N-Teach, the teacher volunteer aspect of the scheme, got the highest applications so far with 470,456 while N-Agro the Agriculture extension section of the scheme followed with 127,315.

He said that N-Health generated 85,691 applications while the latest component, the N-Tax, generated 69,842 applications in five days.

Imoukhuede said that in 2016 the total graduate applicants were 350,000 being less than 50 per cent of the applications already received in less than one week of entries for 2017.

He said that in spite of the number, the Federal Government would restrict itself to the recruitment of 300,000 graduates in the current scheme in order not to exceed the programme’s budget for the period.

Imoukhuede hinted that the selection process would maintain same transparency as in 2016 and expressed gratitude that the hiccup in 2016 registration was completely absent in 2017.

He added that everyone to be engaged this year must satisfy the recruitment requirements outlined in the advertisement such as age and academic qualification as well as completion of the NYSC scheme.

The SSA noted that the N-Power was a lifeline provided by Muhammadu Buhari administration to curb the high rate unemployment rate in the country as promised during his presidential election campaign in 2015.

According to him, volunteerism is a global scheme performed free by those working in other countries but Buhari has promised N30,000 monthly stipend to each graduate volunteer in the country.

He advised the youth to take advantage of the scheme to improve their employability skills and also add value to the society especially in the rural areas.

He said the N-Power had received a lot of commendations from the public since its inception.

 

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