condemn and apply

fratermathy:


- Written by Mathias Orhero (literarymathy@gmail.com)


** I am not a worker for N-Power nor am I an advocate for the Federal Government, APC, or any other political body. I am simply an educator who write to illuminate others. Please direct all enquiries on this FG scheme to http://npower.gov.ng/ or info@npower.gov.ng

This is incomplete without NCE holders....they are the real teachers

Why was emphasis made on teaching alone in the first place? I think that was the reason many people were reluctant to understand and divulge the message.

More light should be shed on other programmes in the scheme such as agriculture and technology.

In this period we have enough educated youths who are unemployed, this programmed should have solely focused on agricultural development where at the end of the program a certain amount should be given to the participant to start his or her own farm.

This is just an opinion though.

We are tired of teaching youths who will eventually become unemployed tomorrow.

Questions


1. This programm is it going to be a continuous process in as much as govt is concerned.

2. After the successfull completion of the programme for the two years, can one reapply again because from the write up, you said its a voluntary programme...

3 will Nigeria youths wait every two years for the intakes to passout every two two years before they can apply or is it going to be an annual recruitment stuff..

lastly Don't you think this is an extended form of NYSC, I believe very will that there is no youth in Nigeria without an ambition. The federal govt kept us for one year for the the so called NYSC and now they are bringing in another one Npower, the money that they will spend for this programmes, they should just give each graduate the total for for the duration once and for all and let everyyouth go and start what he or she wishes with his or her own pay. its an opinion...

fratermathy:


This comment is exactly the reason this writeup was conceived in the first place. Seeing it again here means you didn't read my post AT ALL or you did and did not understand it AT ALL.

Let's learn how to call a spade a spade in this country, in as much as I feel this npower is a good initiative, but d support pay is small comparing it to Nysc allowance is hilarious, is it not the duty of the federal government to curb unemployment? So why as you writing as if Nigerians should count npower as a priveledge?when a new born arrive it is d baby's right to suck so it is totally wrong for mother to allow d baby to starve,,with d state of this economy 23k is too small to sustain a graduate 30k will be ideal because I know some cabal will feed fat & build mansion from this program

Anyone who is not happy with this development should go and jump in the lagoon.... chikena

a nice first time attempt, I must say.But does it mean we shall keep circulating this job in availability on 500,000 people for every two years?!. that's not too cool with me,though it is a welcome development . worked in S/A. for. two straight years too some times ago, and had to return after my contract nature job got expired. So if dogs......then Rabbits too.........

With the way they condemned d police recruitment thing, u will think they wouldn't get up to 1000 applicants. So I won't be surprised if I see over 10million apply for this one too.

I think its a welcome development. "An idle hand is a devil's workshop". You've got to do something.

gidjah:
a nice first time attempt, I must say.But does it mean we shall keep circulating this job in availability on 500,000 people for every two years?!. that's not too cool with me,though it is a welcome development . worked in S/A. for. two straight years too some times ago, and had to return after my contract nature job got expired. So if dogs......then Rabbits too.........

Thank you for your post. Please educate these people abeg...... As far as they are concerned, ''Anything Buhari cannot work". They are not even interested in how to make it work. Negative attitude.

Thanks a lot man, you've opened my eyes to the real meaning of this initiative

fratermathy:


This comment is exactly the reason this writeup was conceived in the first place. Seeing it again here means you didn't read my post AT ALL or you did and did not understand it AT ALL.

Is he a graduate or undergraduate?
The composition of his grammar?

rubyradiance:


Let's learn how to call a spade a spade in this country, in as much as I feel this npower is a good initiative, but d support pay is small comparing it to Nysc allowance is hilarious, is it not the duty of the federal government to curb unemployment? So why as you writing as if Nigerians should count npower as a priveledge?when a new born arrive it is d baby's right to suck so it is totally wrong for mother to allow d baby to starve,,with d state of this economy 23k is too small to sustain a graduate 30k will be ideal because I know some cabal will feed fat & build mansion from this program

i sure agree with you on this. They shouldn't have make it look as if its a priviledge, they should create a secured employment for the youths. But atleast, dem do something, if dem no do nko? Who wan hold them?

marwanafrica:
Graduate earn 25k, how have I been paying my school fees? With 25k as my salary how can I meet up with country's sky rockets commodities prices, Nigeria government is like a devil they give you something with right hand and collect it with the other hand, God why was I born in a country like this?

You ain't forced to apply . By the way tell me how you and your households benefited from the last administration . Please thread with caution . Stop thinking like a toddler i

Annybee:
I hv gone through the website but still can't apply. And the info says application started on 11th June.

please read well,application starts on 12th of june

Eddygourdo:
To fools and educated illiterates, the teaching programme is laudable. How can you be so daft, are they producing future teachers? What skills could u garner from teaching that would be useful to the grauduates on completion of the 2 year program. Or are we merely extending the wasted years of NYSC. What happened to an iintensive two year skill acquisition program , what happened to entrepreneurship programs, programs that can actually help the graduates become self sustaining. Since it is voluntary what is the aim of this N power thing. To produce teachers or to empower our jobless youths .

I thought we would be creating models for diversification, self employment and job creation. Yet some of u half baked graduates who can't reason thinks a two year teacher voluntary teacher program would help you become a good engineer, doctor, business manager when you finish it or maybe the 23k would make you rich ? Or the laptop to be given would make u an employer.

Fools deserve to be lead by one eyed blind men. You all disgust me

Can't you be constructive in your comments for one? Try and always be conscious of what you say on the internet. Some of you just hate anything that government initiates without providing an alternative.

DO you think the government can employ every unemployed youth in the country? Would you rather that the government ignore the unemployed youths because of your biased idea that the programme is useless?

For your information, Mr Man, teaching itself is a skill that is applicable to various fields apart from education itself.

The programme is not also all about teaching. There are other initiatives such as Agriculture, Health, Web development, etc that are there. I am sure you did not see my last point because you were clouded by the hatred for this initiative itself.

Learn to be constructive. The hate will do you no good!

Eddygourdo:
To fools and educated illiterates, the teaching programme is laudable. How can you be so daft, are they producing future teachers? What skills could u garner from teaching that would be useful to the grauduates on completion of the 2 year program. Or are we merely extending the wasted years of NYSC. What happened to an iintensive two year skill acquisition program , what happened to entrepreneurship programs, programs that can actually help the graduates become self sustaining. Since it is voluntary what is the aim of this N power thing. To produce teachers or to empower our jobless youths .

I thought we would be creating models for diversification, self employment and job creation. Yet some of u half baked graduates who can't reason thinks a two year teacher voluntary teacher program would help you become a good engineer, doctor, business manager when you finish it or maybe the 23k would make you rich ? Or the laptop to be given would make u an employer.

Fools deserve to be lead by one eyed blind men. You all disgust me

Really, our education system needs rejigging as depicted by your write-up. N-power addresses more than skillsets as a teacher, Huawei also floated the ICT scheme as well as skillsets in Construction, repairs etc.
Do your researches before criticizing: stop being anti-good initiatives. Be positive.

marwanafrica:
Graduate earn 25k, how have I been paying my school fees? With 25k as my salary how can I meet up with country's sky rockets commodities prices, Nigeria government is like a devil they give you something with right hand and collect it with the other hand, God why was I born in a country like this?

The government is not saddled with the responsibility of providing for all the unemployed graduates. So when you see a good scheme my brother commend it.

marwanafrica:
Graduate earn 25k, how have I been paying my school fees? With 25k as my salary how can I meet up with country's sky rockets commodities prices, Nigeria government is like a devil they give you something with right hand and collect it with the other hand, God why was I born in a country like this?

Don't tell us you didn't read the thread before commenting.Na wa ooooo.

abdulaz:
Why was emphasis made on teaching alone in the first place? I think that was the reason many people were reluctant to understand and divulge the message.

More light should be shed on other programmes in the scheme such as agriculture and technology.

In this period we have enough educated youths who are unemployed, this programmed should have solely focused on agricultural development where at the end of the program a certain amount should be given to the participant to start his or her own farm.

This is just an opinion though.

We are tired of teaching youths who will eventually become unemployed tomorrow.

The programme is not also all about teaching. There are other initiatives such as Agriculture, Health, Web development, etc that are there. That was my last point. N-Power has other "corps" apart from Teacher corps!

fratermathy:


This comment is exactly the reason this writeup was conceived in the first place. Seeing it again here means you didn't read my post AT ALL or you did and did not understand it AT ALL.

Things would fail to add up if prices of commodities continue to rise.
I have to ask will there be a kind of loan that will be given at the end of the two years? Won't those that participate still be at the mercy of the very few companies we have? Most schools can barely afford to pay more than 25k to graduates and won't those that participate end up in these schools at the end? After all they are being trained to be teachers. Now tell me of what use is this if I can easily get those 25k teaching job without participating in this project? How much do you think can be saved at the end of 2 years from this 23k monthly payment?
This initiative is nice but the prospects after 2 years is fragile and I fail to feel confident that I will feel like a graduate after the completion of my two years voluntary service.

marwanafrica:
Graduate earn 25k, how have I been paying my school fees? With 25k as my salary how can I meet up with country's sky rockets commodities prices, Nigeria government is like a devil they give you something with right hand and collect it with the other hand, God why was I born in a country like this?

can u pay for the skills u will b taught?

GambaOsaka:


Thank you for your post. Please educate these people abeg...... As far as they are concerned, ''Anything Buhari cannot work". They are not even interested in how to make it work. Negative attitude.

I voted. this govt in, so it means I love the govt, but if they didn't get something right,we all must criticize positively and even use hammer a times.For instance. the recent fuel price hike was. OK, bit pretty untimely, up till now. masses ain't finding the economy funny at all. Now. back to our topic, does it mean I shall only be Job-stable for just two years and after that get thrown in to a fresh labour market?, what is gonna be be my fate after that two years ?,all the. same, the temporary succour is still a welcome development

I think this is a process to dissolve NYSC

godfrey01:
Questions


1. This programm is it going to be a continuous process in as much as govt is concerned.

The current government shall sustain it for as long as possible. If a new government comes and changes things, well, we cannot question that.

2. After the successfull completion of the programme for the two years, can one reapply again because from the write up, you said its a voluntary programme...

I dont think you can apply for it twice. The aim of the programme is not to provide permanent employment but just to engage jobless youths while they seek for better placement.

3 will Nigeria youths wait every two years for the intakes to passout every two two years before they can apply or is it going to be an annual recruitment stuff..

I think it will be in batches like NYSC. The emphasis here is "I think"!

lastly Don't you think this is an extended form of NYSC, I believe very will that there is no youth in Nigeria without an ambition. The federal govt kept us for one year for the the so called NYSC and now they are bringing in another one Npower, the money that they will spend for this programmes, they should just give each graduate the total for for the duration once and for all and let everyyouth go and start what he or she wishes with his or her own pay. its an opinion...

Paying youths money to start businesses will not solve the problem of unemployment in Nigeria because most of the youths today are reckless with money and lack any form of prudence. The best way to help them is through this method. If you give them money, many will use it to do unspeakable things and go back to square one. However, there are modalities in place to give soft loans to interested youths in other to start entrepreneurial ventures!

Wizzyblack3:

i sure agree with you on this. They shouldn't have make it look as if its a priviledge, they should create a secured employment for the youths. But atleast, dem do something, if dem no do nko? Who wan hold them?

My dear brother abi sister, I honestly pray that we get it right in this country, do you know we have d right to hold them if they are not meeting up to expectations? It is called occupy,we can actually recall a senator,house of rep etc but when we start same youth will betray d plans by going to collect peanuts that are temporal at d detriment of d future,God help my dear country Nigeria

Commendable!! Am sure there will be other poverty alleviating measures soon.

chimoskyg:


The government is not saddled with the responsibility of providing for all the unemployed graduates. So when you see a good scheme my brother commend it.

This is commendable but this government should focus resources more on power generation, road construction and provision of water and houses. If all these are available then that 23k will be very meaningful and well appreciated

gidjah:
I voted. this govt in, so it means I love the govt, but if they didn't get something right,we all must criticize positively and even use hammer a times.For instance. the recent fuel price hike was. OK, bit pretty untimely, up till now. masses ain't finding the economy funny at all. Now. back to our topic, does it mean I shall only be Job-stable for just two years and after that get thrown in to a fresh labour market?, what is gonna be be my fate after that two years ?,all the. same, the temporary succour is still a welcome development

your fate depends solely on you. Your input will be your output. Learn skills for the two years and become self sustained.

rubyradiance:


Let's learn how to call a spade a spade in this country, in as much as I feel this npower is a good initiative, but d support pay is small comparing it to Nysc allowance is hilarious, is it not the duty of the federal government to curb unemployment? So why as you writing as if Nigerians should count npower as a priveledge?when a new born arrive it is d baby's right to suck so it is totally wrong for mother to allow d baby to starve,,with d state of this economy 23k is too small to sustain a graduate 30k will be ideal because I know some cabal will feed fat & build mansion from this program

We have a problem in this country...the programme is for the unemployed,is 23k not better than NOTHING at all??do u know some youths can even get little savings from it and start some small business before they get a better employment??and if the government want to curb employment is it something that will happen overnight??they created the program pending the time there will be more employment ,is that not a good initiative??instead of youth getting idle before the employment will come?if they increase it to 30k some people will still complain that it is small....smh...Nigerians and complain are like bread and butter...u do dem go talk u know do dem go talk...even in America there are now plenty unemployment rate...mtcheww..

rubyradiance:


Let's learn how to call a spade a spade in this country, in as much as I feel this npower is a good initiative, but d support pay is small comparing it to Nysc allowance is hilarious, is it not the duty of the federal government to curb unemployment? So why as you writing as if Nigerians should count npower as a priveledge?when a new born arrive it is d baby's right to suck so it is totally wrong for mother to allow d baby to starve,,with d state of this economy 23k is too small to sustain a graduate 30k will be ideal because I know some cabal will feed fat & build mansion from this program

And I said that as well. The pay is too small but it is better than nothing. Most of the people that will be engaged do not have alternatives. Even private secondary schools pay between 15-20k. Meanwhile, FG is going to take in millions of people eventually and consider the financial burden that it will incur. Other than that, the money is just a startup projection! It may be increased later on.

liveshady:


can u pay for the skills u will b taught?

499,999 others will learn those skills too. Then after two years we are to go and compete with each other for the very few jobs available in which most won't pay well.
My dear just ask the government to do our light and provide housing loans that can stretch to 10 years and we will find our way.