The Federal Government says it will employ 350,000 unemployed graduates this year under its N-Power Volunteer Corps.
According to the Senior Special Assistant on Media & Publicity to the President, Office of the Vice President, Mr. Laolu Akande, President Buhari had requested appropriation of N157.75b in the 2017 budget estimates for the N-Power scheme.
“Out of the N-Power 2017 N157b 2017 budget, 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 disclosed in his weekly update on the Social Investment Programmes, SIP, on Sunday.
He said under the N157.75b, a sum of N4.5b has been earmarked for the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, STEM programme to support young Nigerians in building skills in those…
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