The federal government has employed 200, 000 graduates to work
as teachers and agricultural extension workers across the country.
Laolu
Akande, senior special assistant to the vice president on media,
disclosed this at the second presidential economic communication
workshop in Abuja on Friday. He said they would only work for two
years.
“We have selected 200,000 graduates out of 500,000. This is the
first batch,” he said. “One hundred and fifty thousand will work as
teachers while 50, 000 will work as extension workers. “Their pay which
is 30, 000 per month, will go directly into their account.” He said the
selection process was completed “a couple of weeks back,” but that BVN
screening for the candidates delayed the exercise.
Akande
explained that the new employees would work in their states of
residence, and that their local governments would be in charge of their
supervision.
He added that another leg of the social intervention
programme, which is conditional cash transfer to the poor, would kick
off soon.
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