FG begins recruitment of 500,000 teachers on Sunday

The recruitment of the 500,000 teachers promised
by President Muhammadu Buhari in his Democracy
Day speech starts on Sunday.
According to a statement on Wednesday by the
Senior Special Assistant to the Vice-President on
Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, the
recruitment would be done online.
Akande said the 500,000 Teacher Corps, nicknamed
N-Power Teach on the portal, was one of the three
direct job creation and training schemes Nigerians
could start applying for from Sunday.
Others, according to him, are N-Power Knowledge
which will train 25,000 Nigerians in technology, and
N-Power Build, which will train another 75,000 in
building services, construction, utilities, hospitality
and catering, automotive vocations, aluminium and
gas services.
He said all trainees would be paid for the duration of
their training.
He added, “The N-Power Teacher Corps initiative
which will engage and train 500,000 young
unemployed graduates, is a paid volunteer
programme of a two-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.”