The newly launched Jobs portal of the Federal Government “N-Power.
gov.ng,” has recorded over 400,000 successful registrations since it
opened for submissions at on Sunday, June 12, 2016, according to the Job
Creation Unit in the Presidency.
“We have been very impressed by the enthusiastic response to the call for
applications. As at noon on Monday June 13, only 36 hours after the launch
of the portal, 403, 528 applicants had successfully registered on the site
and were in the middle of completing the application process,” said Mr.
Afolabi Imoukhede, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job
Creation.
“We are also very pleased that the registrations have been taking place
without any hitches or system failures, considering the volume of
response.”
All together the website has received over 35 million hits since Saturday
midnight.
The Jobs Scheme, known as ‘N-Power’, is one of the five initiatives of the
Social Investment Programmes of the Federal Government of Nigeria,
described by President Mohammdu Buhari in his Democracy Day Speech as “by
far the most ambitious social protection programme in our history.” A
total sum of N500B has been provided for the programme in the 2016 Budget,
an unprecedented development in Nigeria’s budget history.
N-Power is designed to help young Nigerians acquire and develop life-long
skills to become solution providers in their communities and to become
players in the domestic and global markets.
It will provide employment opportunities for 500,000 graduates as
teachers, agriculture extension advisers, healthcare assistants, and civic
and adult education instructors in communities across Nigeria.
There will also be a pool of 100,000 software developers, hardware service
professionals, animators, graphic artists, building services
professionals, artisans and others.
Applications for the Scheme commenced on Sunday June 12 on the portal:
The Buhari presidency assures all Nigerians that this application process
would not only be structurally robus, transparent and fair, the selection
process that will follow would also be based on objective criteria that
has nothing to do with party affiliations.
Unemployed Nigerians both graduate and non-graduates would be drawn from
across the country on state by state basis in the final analysis.