290,000 Nigerians Apply For N-Power Jobs In 3 Days (Register Here)

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No less than 290,000 Nigerians have visited the N-power portal to apply for jobs on Friday, just three days after the portal was opened, a presidential aide said.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job Creation, Afolabi Imoukhuede, made this known during an interactive session with the first batch of the scheme’s beneficiaries in Edo at the Urhokpota Hall, Benin City.

According to him, 200,000 graduates are already participating in the scheme while the next batch of 300,000 will be engaged from the new applicants.

Imoukhuede expressed displeasure with the wave of wrong data fed into the portal by graduate applicants and said such problems were discouraging.

He told the volunteers that while the scheme was making efforts to assist them to validate their entries it would not do same for the next batch of recruits.

“The Federal Government is spending N6 billion on stipends to current beneficiaries every month and the amount is not a child’s play.

“It is a lifeline to lift you out of unemployment and out of poverty.

“This is a serious business to reduce unemployment and you have to maximize this chance,” he advised the youth.

The SSA advised applicants to file their applications by themselves and ensure that the information asked for in the application is correct and verifiable.

He acknowledged the challenges encountered by volunteers in the scheme which were largely caused by them and called on the new applicants to ensure that they did not make same mistakes.

Mr. Imoukhuede also said that many of the applicants residing in the rural areas stood better chance of being recruited as emphasis would be on residence of the applicants to curb rural-urban migration.

“We do not encourage state re-deployment because the scheme is unlike the National Youth Service Corps.

“Anyone who is not ready to do volunteer job in his state of domicile should not bother to apply,” he added.

NAN reports that the presidential aide announced that deployment of the non-graduate applicants successful from the screening of applications received in 2016 would be done in batches from July/August 2017.