FG Commences Recruitment of 500,000 Teachers

• Osinbajo launches school feeding programme thursday

Tobi Soniyi in Abuja

The federal government has created an internet portal named npower.gov.ng. through which job seekers can apply for jobs.

A statement issued in Abuja wednesday by the Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, said the presidency would start taking applications online for positions in the 500,000 direct teacher jobs scheme.

Akande said 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.

He said: “Young unemployed Nigerians are advised to visit the website and apply.

President Muhammadu Buhari in his May 29 Democracy Day broadcast to the nation, had 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 trains another 75,000 in the areas of building services, construction, utilities, hospitality and catering, automotive vocations, aluminnium and gas services.

The statement said all trainees would be paid for the duration of their training.
Akande said the N-Power Teacher Corps initiative through which 500,000 young unemployed graduates would be trained would be a paid volunteer programme of a two-year duration.

He said: “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.