Afolabi Imoukhede, the senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on job creation, has said that N-Power,
the newly launched jobs portal of the federal government, has recorded
over 400,000 successful registrations and 35 million hits since it
opened for submissions on Sunday.
“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, Laolu Akande, senior special assistant on media and
publicity to the vice-president, said in a press statement.
The jobs scheme, known as ‘N-Power’, is one of the five initiatives
of the social investment programmes of the federal government.
“About N500 billion has been provided for the programme in the 2016 budget,” he said.
“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,” he said.
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