The
Federal Government of Nigeria 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.
“We have selected 200,000 graduates out
of 500,000. This is the first batch. 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.
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.