MASSIVE RECRUITMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF N-POWER APPLICANTS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIG.
The Federal Government Is Poised To Reducing The Rate Of Unemployment Among Graduates and even Non Graduates In Nigeria Through N-Power Scheme..
No fewer than 50 , 000 non- graduate
applicants in the N- Power volunteer
programme would be deployed in late
September and trained in October, the
Presidential aide on job creation and
youth empowerment , Mr Afolabi
Imoukhuede, has said .
Imoukhuede on Tuesday in Abuja said
that the deployment was delayed to
enable the job creation team to
provide all needed training materials
for the volunteers.
He explained that the volunteers would
be deployed to begin three – month
vocational training in seven
disciplines followed by a nine – month
apprenticeship in related industries
before venturing into self –
employment.
He said that September deployment
was because officials had mapped the
volunteers who applied in 2016 to go
to the various centres for physical
verification to ensure that those in
existing N – Power scheme were
removed.
He said , “ Contracts were awarded as
at end of June and as I speak now
literally all contractors have delivered
to the six zonal warehouses that we
then appointed .
“ So we have a warehouse for South
South in Edo which is a gateway into
South South , for South East we have a
warehouse in Umuahia, for South West
we have Lagos .
“ For North East , we have Yola , for
North West we have in Kaduna and
for North Central, we have a
warehouse in Abuja.
“ These are zonal warehouses that have
received tools for all the vocational
trades from automobile to carpentry
and all the seven disciplines .
“ In addition to that the training
consumables that the centres would
also use to bring the volunteers to the
level of industry competence were also
procured and distributed in all the six
zonal warehouses,’’ said the aide .
He said that the reason it was done
was that one could really begin to
measure standards .
“ So, there will be no case of the
training being given out in Yobe
different from the one in Kaduna or in
Umuahia and also no question of some
centres having consumables and
others claiming they were not
supplied ,’’ he explained .
The presidential aide said that a
centre assessment committee , with the
Labour Minister as Chair and him as
alternate chair , was set up early in the
year to visit the zones .
He said that with the committee the N –
Power team had actually gone around
the country and picked again three
states in each geopolitical zone plus
Lagos and Abuja.
Accordingly, he said , that the training
centres were now in 19 states and FCT,
adding that all the centres are
recommended for training and
retreats across the country .
“ What we are doing from here is to
map the volunteers to these centres
because we did take applications for
the non- graduates last year.
“ In 2016, we had 315 ,000 graduates
and 301 ,000 non- graduate
applications.
“ Out of the 301 , 000 applications
124 ,000 of them were for the
vocational trades in the seven
disciplines ,’’ Imoukhuede said
applicants in the N- Power volunteer
programme would be deployed in late
September and trained in October, the
Presidential aide on job creation and
youth empowerment , Mr Afolabi
Imoukhuede, has said .
Imoukhuede on Tuesday in Abuja said
that the deployment was delayed to
enable the job creation team to
provide all needed training materials
for the volunteers.
He explained that the volunteers would
be deployed to begin three – month
vocational training in seven
disciplines followed by a nine – month
apprenticeship in related industries
before venturing into self –
employment.
He said that September deployment
was because officials had mapped the
volunteers who applied in 2016 to go
to the various centres for physical
verification to ensure that those in
existing N – Power scheme were
removed.
He said , “ Contracts were awarded as
at end of June and as I speak now
literally all contractors have delivered
to the six zonal warehouses that we
then appointed .
“ So we have a warehouse for South
South in Edo which is a gateway into
South South , for South East we have a
warehouse in Umuahia, for South West
we have Lagos .
“ For North East , we have Yola , for
North West we have in Kaduna and
for North Central, we have a
warehouse in Abuja.
“ These are zonal warehouses that have
received tools for all the vocational
trades from automobile to carpentry
and all the seven disciplines .
“ In addition to that the training
consumables that the centres would
also use to bring the volunteers to the
level of industry competence were also
procured and distributed in all the six
zonal warehouses,’’ said the aide .
He said that the reason it was done
was that one could really begin to
measure standards .
“ So, there will be no case of the
training being given out in Yobe
different from the one in Kaduna or in
Umuahia and also no question of some
centres having consumables and
others claiming they were not
supplied ,’’ he explained .
The presidential aide said that a
centre assessment committee , with the
Labour Minister as Chair and him as
alternate chair , was set up early in the
year to visit the zones .
He said that with the committee the N –
Power team had actually gone around
the country and picked again three
states in each geopolitical zone plus
Lagos and Abuja.
Accordingly, he said , that the training
centres were now in 19 states and FCT,
adding that all the centres are
recommended for training and
retreats across the country .
“ What we are doing from here is to
map the volunteers to these centres
because we did take applications for
the non- graduates last year.
“ In 2016, we had 315 ,000 graduates
and 301 ,000 non- graduate
applications.
“ Out of the 301 , 000 applications
124 ,000 of them were for the
vocational trades in the seven
disciplines ,’’ Imoukhuede said
Comments
Post a Comment