Reports from PUNCH and Vanguard are stating that the Federal government shall employ 350,000 graduates in 2017 under what is tagged the N-Power Volunteer Corps and serves as a component of the government’s Social Investment Programmes.
Senior Special Assistant on Media & Publicity to Acting President Yemi Osinabjo, Mr. Laolu Akande, made the disclosure on Sunday during an update on the Social Investment Programmes, SIPs, of the Buhari presidency.
Akande revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari had requested a sum of N157.75bn in the 2017 budget estimates for the N-Power scheme.
“350,000 unemployed graduates more would be hired and trained, alongside 50,000 non-graduates youths to be engaged as artisans and in other creative ventures,” Akande said.