Good News! FG Commences Recruitment of 500,000 Unemployed Graduates

500,000 jobs have been made available for unemployed graduates as the President Buhari-led federal government today, 9th of June, kicked off its 500,000 free jobs for Nigerians.

Punch reports that the recruitment of the 500,000 teachers promised by President Muhammadu Buhari in his Democracy Day speech commences on Sunday.

In a statement released on Wednesday by the Senior Special Assistant to the Vice-President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, the recruitment would be done online.

According to the statement, 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 termed npower.gov.ng.

Others, according to him, are N-Power Knowledge which will train 25,000 Nigerians in technology, and N-Power Build, which will train another 75,000 in building services, construction, utilities, hospitality and catering, automotive vocations, aluminium and gas services.

Furthermore, he said all trainees would be paid for the duration of their training.

He added: “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 play 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 from the programme.”

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