The Presidency on Monday said 403,528 persons had so far
successfully applied for jobs on the Federal Government’s newly-launched job
portal since it opened for applicants on Sunday.
The claims came amid unconfirmed reports that the portal
broke down hours after it was launched, as a result of the volume of the
applications
The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice-President on Media
and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, disclosed this in a statement made available
to
journalists on Monday.
The statement quoted Afolabi Imoukhuede, the Senior Special
Assistant on Job Creation, as saying:
“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, 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. The jobs scheme, known as ‘N-Power’, is one of the
five initiatives of the social investment programmes of the Federal Government
described by President Muhammadu Buhari in his Democracy Day speech as “by far
the most ambitious social protection programme in our history.
A total sum of N500 billion has been provided for the
programme in the 2016 budget, an unprecedented development in Nigeria’s budget
history.”
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.
Applications for the Scheme commenced on Sunday on the
portal: www.npower.gov.ng
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