No fewer than 5,540 applicants have applied for the 100 vacancies approved by the Nasarawa State Government at Isa Mustapha Agwai Polythecnic, Lafia.

The Rector of the Polythecnic, Dr. Justina Kotso, made the disclosure on Tuesday in Lafia when the management of the institution appeared before the State House Assembly Committee on Education for its 2021 budget assessment.

She explained that the polythecnic was able to screen the 5,540 applicants and 767 of them were qualified for the job, out of whom were 400 first class graduates.

Kotso also disclosed that the institution under her watch had achieved a lot especially in the area of infrastructural development, Information and Communication Technology and improved security on the school premises.

“But as Oliver Twist, we are appealing for more funding because that is one of the challenges we are facing. We are prepared to continue to bring new innovations for the overall development of the institution” she added.
The Chairman, House Committee on Education, Daniel Ogazi, urged the rector and management of the polytechnic to absorb academic and non-academic casual staff who had been working in the institution for a long period of time before considering other fresh applicants in its ongoing recruitment.

“Some of them have been working as casual staff for many years and now that the government has approved employment, I urge you to absorb them before you consider fresh applicants,” he added.

Offorgerald15:
Hahahah, they dn already share the job finish.
Those people wan go just waste time and also paying for the interview will still give them(poly) more money to enjoy

She explained that the polythecnic was able to screen the 5,540 applicants and 767 of them were qualified for the job, out of whom were 400 first class graduates.

SarutobiEky:
when do you take classes sir?

agbalej:
They will still bypass the first class students in order to fix their kinsmen. Quota system people.

Hylla05:

You may be true but I also don't support giving them jobs just because of first class. There are so many first-class graduates who lack basic skills for jobs

Hylla05:

You may be true but I also don't support giving them jobs just because of first class. There are so many first-class graduates who lack basic skills for jobs

Hylla05:

You may be true but I also don't support giving them jobs just because of first class. There are so many first-class graduates who lack basic skills for jobs

LordIsaac:

How about the ones with the skills? Don't be envious!

Modrov:


Maybe, but consider this



There are 5540 applicants for 100 jobs. Out of which, 767 are actually qualified for the jobs...meaning that's 767 applicants for 100 jobs. That means for every one space, at least 7-8 qualified applicants are fighting for it. And Nass Poly can only take one ....one of every 7..

Apart from the fact that they are a state poly and would be very likely biased towards their indigenes, and even then, not all of them would make it.

Let's be honest....whichever way you look at it...6-7 people are not going to make it per 1 space. ...that's something like 647 people who won't make it. It has nothing to do with corruption. Or with spaces already shared by the big political forces.....it is the way it is. Too many people competing for too few jobs.

At the end of the day, it would be easy for one of the failed applicants to say s/he did not get the job because he did not have the 'connections' or because 'he was not an indigene'. But the simple fact is that s/he did not get the job because there were too many applicants for too few spaces.

That is why Nigeria needs to be like China or Japan...an industrial nation...so that we can have too many jobs outnumbering the graduates. But we want to all live off the revenue we get from raw materials which is never sufficient for our needs.

Suspect33:
I smell envy , no graduate is fully equipped with all the skills necessary to land a job, that's why their employers enroll them for further training. First class is an asset, don't let anyone tell you otherwise

sulaak:


Industrial development requirement good governance that can enact good policies. You can't build industries in a country that can only generate 4000 MW for 200 million people. Steel plants that are waiting for the Russians to return and tell them why Ajaokuta is not working.

Nigeria must restructure its economy and let the regions with potential develop their capabilities, that is what the Chinese did. They didn't industrialised China, they created FTZ on the coast of China and invited Western and Japanese firms to build factories.