See the number of People Apply for N-Power Jobs

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, said on Monday that the Federal Government
had received 800,000 applications for the 500,000 jobs
promised the youth.

Dr Chris Nwabueze Ngige Speaking at the 5th Town
Hall Meeting organised by the Federal Ministry of
Information in Enugu on Monday, Ngige advised the
people of the South East to explore the opportunity by
registering on the web portal.

He said that the jobs were mainly for teaching and
skills acquisition as promised by the APC government.
He said that the administration had a good agenda for
the unemployed youths irrespective of the current
challenges facing it.
The minister said that 100,000 out of the 500,000 tobe
employed would be trained as agricultural extension
workers and deployed to rural areas to assist the
farmers with improved method of farming through the
partnership of the ministry of agriculture.
"I want our graduates to register so that they will not
say that they are marginalised when people that
registered are selected," he said.
He urged the governors and local government
chairmen in the South East to assist their youths to
print the forms as many expressed difficulty in
accessing the portal.
Ngige regretted that youths neglected skills acquisition
to chase white collar jobs that were not in existence,
adding that most skilled jobs were being done by
Ghanaians and people from other neighboring
countries.
"If our youths had acquired skills, they would be self
employed and reliant and shun Boko Haram, IPOB and
Avengers," the minister said.
He described Igbo youths as enterprising and
hardworkingand could survive without depending on
the government but had neglected their values.
The minister explained that the current economic
hardship the country faced was because the past
government neglected agriculture and failed to savefor
the rainy day.
He admonished the Igbo to come out of the
"persecutionsyndrome,'' saying that the APC-led
government was notmarginalising any section of the
country.

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