N-Power Receives Over 1 Million Applicants

The Federal Government’s youth employment
scheme, N-Power, has seen over 1.1million
graduates apply in just one week.
The Senior Special Assistant to President
Muhammadu Buhari on Job Creation, Mr
Afolabi Imoukhuede, dropped the hint in
Asaba during an interaction with beneficiaries
of the scheme in Delta.
He warned those who perpetually absented
from work or were irregular in attendance,
that they would be demobilised and replaced
with applicants resident in the state.
Imoukhede said that in 2016, at least 751,000
applicants qualified for engagement, including
300,000 for non-graduate scheme. But
300,000 graduates were recruited nationwide.
He explained that the non-advertisement of
the non-graduate recruitment programme in
2017, was to enable those who applied for it
last year to be selected.
“It is for fairness that we did not open
applications for non-graduates so that those
whose applications were collected could be
screened and placed.
“The non-graduate scheme will be mobilized in
batches from July,” he said.