₦airaland Forum

Oledia:
Good for you.

You are satisfy with it because you are a female. You don't have much financial burdens, you don't have people looking up to you for financial assistance, may be you don't have parents and siblings to support financially.
Let us consider the case of a guy leaving in a city like P.H. with its high cost of living. If he must spend #300 on transport fare, at the end of 24 working days, he must have spent #6,000 out of the #30,000. How much will he now save for rent? How much will he spend on food? How much will he spend on clothing and up keep? How much will be left for parents and siblings support? How much can he now have as a savings? Compare it with the millions of naira the not so educated, not so enlightened and not so hard working politicians are spending on just news paper allowances.

Nigerian Youths pls let us open our eyes. Let us emancipate ourselves from every delusional spirit we may have being enslaved. Let us wakeup to save Nigeria. Follow "Arise Nigerian Youths" on Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/arisenigerianyouth/

engrchioce:
so bubu is federal govnmnt? dul*d.

mu2sa2:
N-Power has really helped. I know a guy and his wife, both university graduates. The guy was managing with a monthly 10k teaching job at a private school but the wife was virtually unemployed. You will pity this couple and their little child. Then came N-Power and both were successfully enrolled (online application, no connection whatsoever) - that catapulted them to 60,000 naira a month. The guy has started a small business with his savings - something he can fall back on when N-Power ends after 2 years. I heard that he once remarked that when people criticize Buhari/ Osinbajo govt, he cannot but defend them on account of N-Power. N-Power has been a lifeline for tens of thousands of graduates. If you have been jobless for years and then gets a 30k job, will you thank or curse the person who gave you the job?

dammyloye:
mumu, dumb mofos everywhere.......there is difference between Buhari and federal government, federal government made that empowerment program so as to reduce the issues of insufficient staffs in our education and healthcare system. (a case of scratch my back make I scratch ur back)

to the mumu people quoting me: let me ask you, with this npower program of 30k, did you help yourself or you helped the government who is suppose to employ adequate teachers and health workers.

our youths, always celebrating mediocrity

thunderbabs:
If you re a christian on this platform, plz share by telling me how many youths gave testimony for getting 30k Npower job. Otherwise, like.

D result ll tell u dt graduates re bin fooled... D govt who created npower can as well employ them as normal govt employees earning based on grade levels not dz contract job expliotation scheme.

Funny enuf, many graduates wld ve turned down contract jobs paying either similar or littl above 30k.

dammyloye:
mumu, dumb mofos everywhere.......there is difference between Buhari and federal government, federal government made that empowerment program so as to reduce the issues of insufficient staffs in our education and healthcare system. (a case of scratch my back make I scratch ur back)

to the mumu people quoting me: let me ask you, with this npower program of 30k, did you help yourself or you helped the government who is suppose to employ adequate teachers and health workers.

our youths, always celebrating mediocrity

GavelSlam:
So you think goverment can employ 200 thousand more people to the federal civil service?

dammyloye:
mumu, dumb mofos everywhere.......there is difference between Buhari and federal government, federal government made that empowerment program so as to reduce the issues of insufficient staffs in our education and healthcare system. (a case of scratch my back make I scratch ur back)

to the mumu people quoting me: let me ask you, with this npower program of 30k, did you help yourself or you helped the government who is suppose to employ adequate teachers and health workers.

our youths, always celebrating mediocrity

safarigirl:
"Graduate of Tai Solarin University of Education....."

Please, what is a University of Education?

Imagine a graduate of Industrial Chemistry being content with having the job of a teacher when she could do so much more with that degree. Nigerian youths are a lost cause

safarigirl:
how can she reject the offer when comfort is something Nigerians love? Everybody just wants to be comfortable, nobody wants to be innovative, people will waste how many years in school and come out to do something they never had plans for

You should be concerned that a person who has no Teaching Certificate is a teacher, that is the beginning of the failure in our educational system

Akious2k2:
Do you know the meaning of "University of Education" yourself?

Are you saying that the op was trained to be in the "Industry" rather than the "Teaching" line?

Don't exhibit ignorance here please

thunderbabs:
Dont you think ur senators and house of rep members' outrageous earnings on a yearly basis can tk care of at least a 100k graduates in a year?

safarigirl:
there is no such thing as a University of Education

There are Universities and there are Colleges of Education, there are no Universities of Education

She goes on to say she has a BSc in Industrial Chemistry, which would imply she attended a University and not a College of Education, only Universities give BSc degrees. Now, in sane countries, not this madhouse you are content with, you cannot teach if you do not have a degree in Education either from a CoE or a University. Teaching is a professional course, just like Law or Medicine, it is not something any random person can pick up because dem no fit find work

You are obviously the ignorant fellow here.

Histrings08:
Npower helps a lot of people, I know of a lot of graduates that has no means of income until d advent of npower, I'm a beneficiary myself... Buh the idea I don't buy is this BS cry for Fg to retain beneficiaries.. Why is that pls? Don't u want others that are coming to benefit too? Gather the money nd start something reasonable with it. My opinion though

abdoullerh:
Your opinion suck. What's wrong in asking fg to retain the beneficiaries. How much did you gather by now mister cheapskate?

dammyloye:
mumu, dumb mofos everywhere.......there is difference between Buhari and federal government, federal government made that empowerment program so as to reduce the issues of insufficient staffs in our education and healthcare system. (a case of scratch my back make I scratch ur back)

to the mumu people quoting me: let me ask you, with this npower program of 30k, did you help yourself or you helped the government who is suppose to employ adequate teachers and health workers.

our youths, always celebrating mediocrity

Akious2k2:
That statement describes you because you just made mockery of yourself... Now calm down and listen...
You should have known that "University of Education" can be likened to the "Faculty of Education" in the University
That school, I believe, only Train People in that capacity
Are you now telling me that one who graduates from the "Faculty of Education" is not permitted to teach, even in saner climes?

Baawaa:
I am a female graduate of Tai-solarin University of Education, Ogun state with a BSc Certificate in Industrial Chemistry. The forlorn hope about the future started gripping me two months to graduation, driving me to a point of sickness. I came from a poor family not privileged to have the right connection for people like me to secure a job after graduation.

I got sick more and more listening to stories of frustration told by those who graduated before me. Many of them, out of frustration became apprentices to learn menial jobs. Many who languished under inclement weather of bad economy turned to prostitution to eke out life. Many ended up as mere servants in the homes of even the middle class, contending with attendant insults and low self-esteem. Even those who got supposedly good jobs lament bitterly about poor pay and treatment of ignominy by the agencies who recruited them. Majority of young graduates, I know are still in their parents homes, degenerating by the day. I had prayed every day to God to make my case different. Yes, there were few privileged graduates who earned good jobs, yet, they could be counted on fingertips, I had hoped to be one of them.

After graduation in 2014, I was posted to Kebbi State in 2015 for mandatory National Youths Service. I love Kebbi for the peace and tranquility it offered, coming from the southwestern part of Nigeria. Within a year of my service in Kebbi, I opened my mind to the possibility of becoming a rice merchant. This is because, Kebbi by the grace of the Anchor Borrowers Programme initiated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had become a leading state in the growth of rice. My plan then was to purchase rice in bags and transfer them down south to start a business as a graduate after my NYSC programme. It was a solid plan, which I would have initiated for others to follow, all things being equal

Bright as the idea of becoming a rice merchant looked, I had the excitement cut short by my Local Government Inspector in Kebbi, Alhaji Idris who raised the issue of huge capital as the first requirement. I had no idea of how to raise over a million naira to start the business. Yet, I was hopeful. After completing my NYSC year in Kebbi, I returned to Ibadan, Oyo State to start counting on mother luck to bail me out. Nothing was forth coming until six months after when my lovely father put a call across to me to intimate me of a programme initiated by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, called N-Power; offer of job opportunities to 200, 000 young Nigerian graduates.

I did not appreciate the initial efforts by my father to link me up with N-Power. I had always regarded any programme from the federal government in that line, a ruse. My father persisted and had one day referred me to a statement by the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo that the programme was real. Osinbajo, in that report, impressed it on young graduates not to waste the opportunity, being part of President Buhari’s passion to mop up unemployment under his government. Incidentally, he was the Anchor of N-Power.

Owing to ceaseless efforts from daddy, I registered on line for N-Power on the very closing day, just to make him happy! I never placed hope on the efforts because of cynicism and bias I had against anything from the government. But six months after I turned in the application, I heard the rumour that names of beneficiaries had been shortlisted and published. Truly, some of those who were shortlisted came back pumping hands and getting pats on the back. It never occurred to me to make an effort to check. But I did because my father again prodded me to do so. I made the list and it was incredible, very unbelievable! I did not depend on the usual connection or link to pull through. The opportunity came on merit, just like that. Awesome! That was on November 21, 2016. From that day, President Muhammadu Buhari who many love to castigate became my own hero!

I went for the mandatory screening exercise in December 2016 and was finally selected. I was posted to Ewekoro Local Government area in Ogun State and resumed as a teacher on January 9, 2017. I appreciate the privileged to serve in that capacity. Since joining the N-Power scheme, I noticed that the government has never failed in paying up as at when due, monthly. Now, I reckon with the power and importance of the scheme. I was able to acquire additional skills and knowledge on Social Development, while also gaining from the study habits of the people through the other initiatives the government provided.

I am prodded to write my experience with the N-Power initiative, first to appreciate the concern by the Buhari’s government had on the high level of unemployment in Nigeria and the need to solve the problem. Most importantly, I intend to use this write up to beg the government for more.

For me, N-Power is a good initiative designed to solve the riddle of life for 200, 000 young graduates and providing hope for them. I urged the government to offer permanent employment to all the beneficiaries while opening fresh avenues for more young graduates to benefit. I make this appeal because the programme ends this year. Then, it is out of place for the government to throw the beneficiaries into the labour market again, after investing in them.

I seize this opportunity to thank the government of Ogun State under the able leadership of Senator Ibikunle Amosun for being very accommodating and hospitable to benefiicaries of N-Power. His government has promised not to let the worthy beneficiaries down. We will continue to count on his promise too.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo deserves praise because of his steadfastness in making success out of N-Power. For me, he is the reason the programme was not hijacked by the very greedy and insatiable political leaders, either at the state level or federal.

I end by saying that no matter the machinations by the opponents against the government of President Buhari that means well for the youths, we the beneficiaries of N-Power will always appreciate it for what it stands for. I join others in praying for the continued success of the President and his government. 

God bless President Muhammadu Buhari!

God bless Nigeria

 

Omolayo Osunbayo (Miss)

N-Power beneficiary, Ewekoro Local Government Area,

Ogun State.

safarigirl:
you have obviously never been to any higher institution in your life, hence such disturbing ignorance.

So, in you village, Faculties of Education are called University of Education? You think anyone who calls a faculty of education a University at an interview will get the job?

Secondly, do you know what a BSc is? It is a Bachelor of Science degree. They cannot give you a BSc if you graduated from a Faculty of Education, what you get from graduating from a Faculty of Education is a BEd which is Bachelor of Education

I suggest you educate yourself before quoting me next time, rather than being arrogant about things you obviously know nothing of

HeyCorleone:
Woman, sit down and don't say what you don't know.

They only award B.Ed in TASUED. It's the first University of Education. Don't say what you have no idea about.

I see you trying to sound Behind to that poor chap yet you know nothing.

HeyCorleone:
Woman, sit down and don't say what you don't know.

They only award B.Ed in TASUED. It's the first University of Education. Don't say what you have no idea about.

I see you trying to sound Behind to that poor chap yet you know nothing.

GavelSlam:
Apples and oranges.

Npower is an initiative of the Federal Government - the Executive.

The executive has no control over the budget of legislators.

So please separate these arms of government.

dammyloye:
mumu, dumb mofos everywhere.......there is difference between Buhari and federal government, federal government made that empowerment program so as to reduce the issues of insufficient staffs in our education and healthcare system. (a case of scratch my back make I scratch ur back)

to the mumu people quoting me: let me ask you, with this npower program of 30k, did you help yourself or you helped the government who is suppose to employ adequate teachers and health workers.

our youths, always celebrating mediocrity

safarigirl:
then bothghat poor chap and the OP do not know that the term is BEd and not BSc?

Because the OP stated she has a BSc, did she not?

You attend a school and you don't even know the degree you acquired, it is a cause for concern

thunderbabs:
You just dont get it, do you? I am not interested in you teaching me government here. But they have control over the pay of an average Nigerian worker, innit? Stop all dz ur by d book shit... Aint helping no one