N-Power is a job creation and empowerment initiative of the
Social Investment Programme of the Federal Government of Nigeria. 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.
Beneficiaries of the 500,000 direct teacher jobs scheme
under the N-Power programme will have a take home monthly salary of 23,000 Naira.
Application into the scheme is billed to start on June 12
through the online portal npower.gov.ng.
“Beside their monthly take home pay estimated at about
N23,000, the selected 500,000 graduates will also get computer devices that
will contain information necessary for their specific engagement, as well as
information for their continuous training and development. They get to keep the
devices, even after exiting from the programme.
“According to the plan of the Buhari administration, the
N-Power Teacher Corps programme is an invaluable opportunity for young
Nigerians to make immense economic and social contributions to the nation,
while developing their skills. It will also help to address the problems of
inadequate teachers in public schools.
“Also, persons enlisted under the scheme will gain work
experience and acquire key competencies through academic and non-academic
capacity building programmes intended to improve their competitiveness in the
workplace. Their devices will come loaded with knowledge-oriented applications
and software that will enable them acquire the skills and capacity.
“Under the N-Power Knowledge scheme, there are three
aspects: Creative, Technology Software and Hardware. These three sub-divisions
will train 25,000 young Nigerians in all. “5,000 of them would be trained in
Animation, Graphic Design, Post-Production, Script-Writing, all under the
sub-division of N-Power Knowledge-creative category.
“The N-Power Knowledge scheme also has a technology category
in two aspects: hardware and software. 10,000 Nigerians would be trained, and
equipped in the area of software development, including web designer, and
another 10,000 in hardware expertise, including repair, maintenance and
assemblage of mobile phones, tablets, computers and other devices.
“Also, the N-Power Build category was designed, realizing
that the presence of a well-trained and highly skilled youth population in any
economy has direct impact on entrepreneurship/wealth creation, which in turn
leads to a decline in unemployment.
“N-Power Build is, therefore, an accelerated training and
certification (skills to job/enterprise) programme that will engage and train
75,000 young, unemployed Nigerians to build a new crop of skilled and highly
competent workforce of technicians, artisans and service professionals.”
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