FG begins recruitment of 500, 000 teachers

The Federal Government has kick-started activities that will lead up to the employment of about 500,000 direct teachers.

The government says it will start taking applications online for the positions, through an internet portal npower.gov.ng.
According to Laolu Akande, Special adviser to the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, 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.


Young unemployed Nigerians are advised to visit the website and apply.
It would be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari in his May 29th Democracy Day broadcast to the nation formally launched the 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 train another 75,000 in the areas of building services, construction, utilities, hospitality and catering, automotive vocations, aluminium and gas services.

According to the statement, all trainees would be paid for the duration of their training.
The N-Power Teacher Corps initiative which will engage and train 500,000 young unemployed graduates, is a paid volunteer programme of a 2-year duration. 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.
Besides 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.