•403,528 applicants registered in 36 hours
Thirty-five million
applicants have hit the Federal Government’s social investment teaching job
website since it became operational on Sunday.
Media
report continues:
This
was disclosed by a statement issued on Monday by the Senior Special Assistant
on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande.
The
portal was opened in order to receive applications towards filling 500,000
direct teaching jobs scheme.
The
statement also revealed that 400,000 applicants were successfully registered
for the teaching jobs within the first 36 hours the website began operation.
It
reads: “The newly launched Jobs portal of the Federal Government “npower.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,” the statement quoted
the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job Creation, Mr. Afolabi
Imoukhede.
“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.”
After
the online application, screening and shortlisting will be carried out.
The
Jobs Scheme, known as ‘N-Power’, is one of the five initiatives of the Social
Investment Programmes, for which the Federal Government has allocated ₦500
billion in the 2016 Budget.
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.
The
statement also assured that the application process would not only be
structurally robust, transparent and fair, but that the selection process 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.” It added
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