In
what is the first roll-out of its N500b social investment programmes,
the Buhari presidency will start 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, the beginning of next week. Young unemployed Nigerians
are advised to visit the website and apply.
It
would be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari in his May 29th
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
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
N-Power Teacher Corps initiative which will engage and train 500,000
young unemployed graduates, is a paid volunteer programme of a 2-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.
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.
5000 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. 10,000 Nigerians would 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.
The
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.
'Laolu Akande
Senior Special Assistant (Media & Publicity)
In the Office of the Vice President
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