Nigeria begins recruitment of 500,000 unemployed graduates
In what is the first roll-out of its N500billion social investment programmes, the Nigerian 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 . While the portal would be live on Saturday June 11, applications are expected to start coming in on June 12. Young unemployed Nigerians are advised to visit the website and apply, a statement by the vice president office said on Wednesday. President Muhammadu Buhari had in his May 29 Democracy Day broadcast to the nation formally launched the “unprecedented social investment programmes already provided for under the 2016 Appropriation by the administration.” 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