N-POWER: NIGERIAN GOVT REVEALS NUMBER OF APPLICANTS TO BE RECRUITED
N-POWER:
NIGERIAN GOVT REVEALS NUMBER OF APPLICANTS TO BE RECRUITED
Nigerian government on Tuesday gave
the actual number of applicants the N-Power programme will soon recruit.
This is contained in a speech Vice
President, Yemi Osinabjo delivered at the National Economic Summit.
He said, “The N-Power programme for
unemployed graduates has employed 200,000 young people with another 300,000 set
to be recruited.”
On the Home Grown School Feeding
Programme, Osinbajo disclosed that
about 3 million children across 14 States are participating with the numbers expected to ramp up as it begins to cover 21 States in this new academic session”.
about 3 million children across 14 States are participating with the numbers expected to ramp up as it begins to cover 21 States in this new academic session”.
N-Power online assessment test
commenced July 1 and ended August 31.
Applicants in four categories – Tax,
Health, Agro and Teach – attempted the test.
The duration of the programme is 2
years and participants will undergo an initial induction training prior to
deployment.
The government recently warned that
volunteers caught or implicated in the sale of the programme’s tablets would be
dismissed.
Presidential Aide on Job Creation and
Youth Empowerment, Mr Afolabi Imoukhuede, said “Information reaching us is that
some of our N-Power Volunteers are attempting to dispose their device, we urge
you in your best interest not to do so.
“Once caught, you would not only be
dismissed from the programme, you would be blacklisted from other federal
government’s social Investment Programmes.
“A lien would also be placed on your
bank accounts for the full refund of the asset cost to the Bank of Industry”.