Federal Government To Begin Job Recruitment Next Month

Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has said that recruitment of 500,000 teachers by the federal government and other employment programmes promised by the government will begin in July, 2016.

The minister said the government will soon open a portal for interested Nigerians to apply, pointing out that qualified Nigerians will be screened, while those successful will be subjected to special training before being deployed to schools to teach. The schools are located in the states and so, the state government need to cue into the programme.

The government intends to use the school feeding problem to decapitate school dropout syndrome which in the south east is male drop out. We will also do a micro credit scheme for women in particular, especially market women who did not complete secondary education. They will be encouraged to go into entrepreneurship where necessary in a loan revolving scheme.