Nigeria: As Govt Prepares to Recruit 500,000 Teachers...

Many stakeholders blame the development on government's reduction of avenues for teacher training, saying apart from scrapping the old teacher-training colleges, the colleges of education that train primary to middle level teachers are almost extinct. As a way of resolving this, they

said these lapses must be quickly corrected and the lost prestige restored to the teaching profession. "We must use the present unemployment challenge as an opportunity for restoration of this noble profession.

500,000 teachers' recruitment: Matters arising

The decision of the Federal Government to recruit 500,000 teachers as part of its plans to revamp the country’s education sector has continued to generate divergent views taking into cognisance workable modalities to realizing the plans. Our Correspondent, ELIJAH ONUCHEOJO OYIGU reports

ADAMU ADAMU Minister for Education

Pros and cons in recruiting 500,000 teachers

Thousands of public schools in the country suffer the scarcity of qualified teachers and the problem is further exacerbated by the lack of ability and initiative to handle the problem squarely. The situation is particularly chronic in rural areas where in some schools there are reportedly between two and three teachers to take care of the whole school.
The shortage of science and mathematics teachers and the rampant cases of teacher absenteeism in rural schools have reached crisis level. In the FCT for instance, there are rural schools with between two and four teachers while more and more teachers carry out ‘multi-grade’ teaching in order to keep the pupils busy.

President Muhammadu Buhari presents the 2016 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly in Abuja on December 22, 2015

SAMPLE OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT LETTER FROM THE SUCCESSFUL COMPLECTION OF APPLICATION PROCESS FROM THE 500000 TEACHERS RECRUITMENT ON N-POWER PORTAL

SAMPLE OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT LETTER FROM THE SUCCESSFUL COMPLECTION OF APPLICATION PROCESS FROM THE 500000 TEACHERS RECRUITMENT ON N-POWER PORTAL

When an applicant has successfully  passed through the five steps of application for the on going recruipment exercise, you will get an e-mail sent to you registered mail acknowledging that your application has been successfully received.

If during the application process, you got to the last stage and could not proceed, and when you want to start again, the portal replies you that your e-mail, phone number and BVN are already used, it means that you need to check your e-mail because you have been sent an acknowledgement of successful registration.

Note that unless you have this e-mail, you have not enrolled in the programme.

The sample of e-mail you will get is shown below:

500,000 Teachers’ Recruitment Portal Crashes On Day One

The recruitment of 500,000 teachers by the Federal Government might have run into a hitch as the website for the exercise crashed on Sunday following what was suspected to be massive applications by prospective candidates. The Federal Government had, last week, announced that the recruitment of the teachers would commence on Sunday, directing interested Nigerians to apply through http://portal.npower.gov.ng. But attempts by one of our correspondents to register on the portal around 6.48pm on Sunday failed as the website was not available.

VICE PRESIDENT YEMI OSINBAJO

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BY ADELANI ADEPEGBA AND FRIDAY OLOKORJUN 13, 2016

The recruitment of 500,000 teachers by the Federal Government might have run into a hitch as the website for the exercise crashed on Sunday following what was suspected to be massive applications by prospective candidates.

FG’s recruitment of 500,000 unemployed graduates for teaching jobs commences June 12

Minister of Education, Mr. Adamu Adamu,

The Federal Government said on Wednesday that it will start taking applications online for positions in the 500,000 direct teacher jobs scheme, through an internet portal named npower.gov.ng. in what it described as the first roll out of its N500 billion social investment programmes.

WHO IS N-POWER FOR

What is N-Power?

N-Power is a job creation and empowerment initiative of the Social Investment Programme of the Federal Government of Nigeria. N-Power is designed to help young Nigerians acquire and develop life-long skills to become solution providers in their communities and to become players in the domestic and global markets.

Why N-Power?
Skills and knowledge are the driving forces of economic growth and social development. Despite the current high level of unemployment, harnessing Nigeria’s young demography through appropriate skill development efforts provides an opportunity to achieve inclusion and productivity within the country.  Large-scale skill development is the main policy thrust of the N-Power Programme.

N-Power addresses the challenge of youth unemployment by providing a structure for large scale and relevant work skills acquisition and development while linking its core and outcomes to fixing inadequate public services and stimulating the larger economy. The modular programmes under N-Power will ensure that each participant will learn and practice most of what is necessary to find or create work. The N-Power Teacher Corps involves a massive deployment of 500,000 trained graduates who will assist to improve the inadequacies in our public services in education, health and civic education.  Some of these graduates will also help in actualizing Nigeria’s economic and strategic aspirations of achieving food security and self-sufficiency.

N-Power is also preparing young Nigerians for a knowledge economy where, equipped with world-class skills and certification, they become innovators and movers in the domestic and global markets. Nigeria will have a pool of software developers, hardware service professionals, animators, graphic artists, building services professionals, artisans and others. N-Power also focuses on providing our non-graduates with relevant technical and business skills that enhance their work outlook and livelihood.

In sum, N-Power is segmented as follows:

• N-Power Teachers Corps– 500,000 graduates
• N-Power Knowledge – 25,000 non-graduates
• N-Power Build– 75,000 non-graduates

Who can apply?
The N-Power programme is for all eligible Nigerians looking to work gainfully. However, the initial programmes have been designed for young Nigerians between the ages of 18 and 35.

What are you waiting for? Visit www.npower.gov.ng and get N-Powered.

Registration has started since June 11, 2016.

SOURCE:      BELLA NAIJA

SIMPLIFIED REGISTRATION PROCEDURES FOR NPOWER.GOV.NG

SIMPLIFIED REGISTRATION PROCEDURES FOR NPOWER.GOV.NG

1) Click on www.npower.gov.ng

2) You're taken to the homepage with the following headings: npower logo, npower YouTube tutorial, npower needs you, and programs. 

3) Click on PROGRAM 

4) Clicking on program will highlight the following areas: teacher corps, (the enablers ); knowledge (innovators); Build (the builders )

. NOTE: 
Teacher Corps is basically for unemployed graduates hoping to get 500,000 Nigerians in the following areas: npower agro, npower health, npower teach, npower community education. The name says it and you'll know which area would best suit you.

Knowledge is for both graduates and non graduates hoping to catch 10,000 Nigerian youths in the following areas: npower creative, npower tech hardware, npower tech software 

Build covers these areas building services, construction, building environment services, utilities, automative, aluminium and gas hoping to catch in 75,000 Nigerians. I think graduates and non graduates can apply for this 

5)You already know which area you fit in.

6) Assuming you're applying for npower agro, click on Teacher corps

7) You'll see under it Enablers, click on more 

Clicking on more will list npower agro, health etc, click on Npower agro.

 Under it you'll see overview (what the area is all about) course details, criteria (whether you have the requirements ) etc

9) Scroll down, you'll see Apply 
Apply means you need to register first. It means you need to have an account: Username, valid email address, password are needed to register an account 

10) Click on register after supplying the above info in step 9

If you like, you can sign out then login again to upload your docs 


Repeat step 6 but don't click on register again. 

Under register, you'll see Login 

Login that's where you see step 1 of 5 . 

That's the stage you'll have to provide the necessary Info about you including your qualifications. 

After you're done, Click on Submit.

OVERVIEW OF THE KEY AREAS OF DEPLOYMENT OF THE 500,000 NEW TEACHERS

The Federal Government of Nigeria has made further clarification concerning the proposed five hundred teachers to be under the N-Power Teacher Corps Programmes. According to the official website

The N-Power Teacher Corps  will engage and train 500,000 young unemployed graduates. It is a paid volunteering programme of a 2 year duration. The 500,000 graduates under the N-Power Corps programme will get computing devices that will contain information necessary for their specific engagement, as well as information for their continuous training and development. Participants will provide teaching, instructional, and advisory solutions in 4 key areas.

 N-Power Agro

N-Power Agro

• Overview
• Course Details
• Criteria
• Start Date
• Duration
• Certification
• Jobs

One of the ways that the Federal Government plans to diversify our economy is attaining self-sufficiency in producing the food we consume. An effective and well-coordinated agriculture extension system is vital to the attainment of sustainable national food self-sufficiency. To establish this system, the Federal Government will engage qualified young Nigerians through the N Power Agro program.
After a first phase of training, N-Power Agro volunteers will start to function as intermediaries between research and farmers. They will operate as facilitators and communicators, helping farmers in their decision-making and ensuring that appropriate knowledge is implemented to obtain the best results on farms. N-Agro will also rely on the use of technology as the country aspires to identify soil types, farm sizes, irrigation data, and ensure that our farmers are operating optimally.
In addition, successful applicants will also benefit from a compulsory employability and entrepreneurship skills development programme.

Core Employability Skills	Competencies/Learning Strategies	Induction Skills	Competencies/Learning Strategies
COMMUNICATION	Writing and presenting written and verbal reports Role Plays Demonstrations Working in groups		To be communicated before commencement of training
TEAMWORK	Team or group projects Learning sets Group discussion Syndicates Communities of practice
PROBLEM SOLVING	Case studies Simulations Investigative projects and research Using various problem solving tools and techniques Developing or designing models Problem solving in teams and networks Decision making activities
INITIATIVE & ENTERPRISE	Brainstorming activities Designing innovative and creative practices and solutions Initiating change/design change processes Simulation activities
PLANNING & ORGANIZING	Research and data collection Developing action plans Planning and organizing events Time management activities Goal setting activities and scheduling tasks Collecting and analyzing information
SELF-MANAGEMENT	Development of portfolios Work plans Using log books to record time management skills and monitor own performance Career planning exercises
LEARNING	Reflective journals log books, diaries Mentoring and coaching activities Self-evaluation tools
TECHNOLOGY	Using the Internet, Intranets Using ICT skills to complete activities Industry relevant software, technology and equipment

• Currently Unemployed
• Must be a graduate (any field or profession )
• Must have completed the mandatory National Youth Service Corps Programme
• Aged between 18-35
• Interest in the agricultural industry

1st August, 2016

2 years

Participants will undergo an initial induction training prior to deployment

National Skills Qualification (NSQ)

Ultimately, N-Power Agro members can aspire to a life-long career around agriculture or allied fields. Possible destinations include:

• Agriculture Extension Services Consultant
• Seed, fertilizer and other input aggregators
• Farm managers
• Public sector jobs in Agriculture
• Various industries and manufacturers of agricultural products
• Farming co-operatives management
• Pest control companies
• Self-employment, working as a farming consultant
• Seed, fertilizer and other input aggregators

apply now

N-Power Health

N-Power Health

• Overview
• Course Details
• Criteria
• Start Date
• Duration
• Certification
• Jobs

Through the N-Power Health programme, young graduates who form part of the 500,000 N-Power Corps members will be trained to work as public health assistants. They will teach preventive health to community members including pregnant women, children, families and individuals. They will also be trained to provide basic diagnostic services. 
Programme participants would be trained to provide the following essential services:

1. Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems.
2. Diagnose and investigate basic health problems and health hazards in individuals and the community.
3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
4. Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
6. Educate on laws, regulations and policies that protect health and ensure safety.
7. Link people to needed personal health services.

In addition, successful applicants will also benefit from a compulsory employability and entrepreneurship skills development programme.

Core Employability Skills	Competencies/Learning Strategies	Induction Skills	Competencies/Learning Strategies
COMMUNICATION	Writing and presenting written and verbal reports Role Plays Demonstrations Working in groups		To be communicated before commencement of training
TEAMWORK	Team or group projects Learning sets Group discussion Syndicates Communities of practice
PROBLEM SOLVING	Case studies Simulations Investigative projects and research Using various problem solving tools and techniques Developing or designing models Problem solving in teams and networks Decision making activities
INITIATIVE & ENTERPRISE	Brainstorming activities Designing innovative and creative practices and solutions Initiating change/design change processes Simulation activities
PLANNING & ORGANIZING	Research and data collection Developing action plans Planning and organizing events Time management activities Goal setting activities and scheduling tasks Collecting and analyzing information
SELF-MANAGEMENT	Development of portfolios Work plans Using log books to record time management skills and monitor own performance Career planning exercises
LEARNING	Reflective journals log books, diaries Mentoring and coaching activities Self-evaluation tools
TECHNOLOGY	Using the Internet, Intranets Using ICT skills to complete activities Industry relevant software, technology and equipment

 

• Currently Unemployed
• Must be a graduate ( any field or profession )
• Must have completed the mandatory National Youth Service Corps Programme
• Aged 18-35
• An interest in public health
• You should be a caring individual, interested in the health and safety of others and of good temperament

1st August 2016

2 years

Participants will undergo an initial induction training prior to deployment

National Skills Qualification

At the end of the two-year programme, you may seek further opportunities in the following occupations in an employee or self-employed role:

• Health Education Specialist
• Health Promotion Coordinator
• Public Relations Manager
• Breastfeeding Support Coordinator
• Health Office Administrator
• Health Research Analyst
• Social Worker & Counselor
• Health Services Manager
• Health Department Administrator
• Government Policy Analyst
• Displaced Persons Coordinator
• HIV/AIDS Educator
• Project Manager in Public Health
• Field Investigator
• Research Analyst
• Community Health Worker

apply now

N-Power Teach

N-Power Teach

• Overview
• Course Details
• Criteria
• Start Date
• Duration
• Certification
• Jobs

The N-Power Teach programme will engage qualified graduates for the benefit of basic education delivery in Nigeria. They will be deployed as teaching assistants in primary and secondary schools across Nigeria.  They will not replace the current teachers, but will work as support teachers, assisting with teaching, school management and other functions within the schools. They will also assist in taking basic education to children in marginalised communities.
Importantly, they will gain work experience, and acquire key competencies through academic and non-academic capacity building programmes, which will improve their competitiveness in the workplace. In addition, successful applicants will also benefit from a compulsory employability and entrepreneurship skills development programme.

 
 

Core Employability Skills	Competencies/Learning Strategies	Induction Skills	Competencies/Learning Strategies
COMMUNICATION	Writing and presenting written and verbal reports Role Plays Demonstrations Working in groups		To be communicated before commencement of training
TEAMWORK	Team or group projects Learning sets Group discussion Syndicates Communities of practice
PROBLEM SOLVING	Case studies Simulations Investigative projects and research Using various problem solving tools and techniques Developing or designing models Problem solving in teams and networks Decision making activities
INITIATIVE & ENTERPRISE	Brainstorming activities Designing innovative and creative practices and solutions Initiating change/design change processes Simulation activities
PLANNING & ORGANIZING	Research and data collection Developing action plans Planning and organizing events Time management activities Goal setting activities and scheduling tasks Collecting and analyzing information
SELF-MANAGEMENT	Development of portfolios Work plans Using log books to record time management skills and monitor own performance Career planning exercises
LEARNING	Reflective journals log books, diaries Mentoring and coaching activities Self-evaluation tools
TECHNOLOGY	Using the Internet, Intranets Using ICT skills to complete activities Industry relevant software, technology and equipment

• Currently Unemployed
• Must be a graduate in any field or profession
• Must have completed the mandatory National Youth Service Corps Programme
• Aged 18-35
• Disposition to teaching and imparting knowledge
• Disposition to discovering knowledge
• Patience and ability to listen are good qualities to possess

1st August 2016

2 years

Participants will undergo an initial induction training prior to deployment

National skills qualification

At the end of the two-year programme, you may seek further opportunities in the following occupations in an employee or self-employed role:

• Professional Teaching
• Researcher, Research Associate, Senior Research Analyst
• Education Consultant, Associate,
• Strategy Consultant
• Education Services Manager
• Project Manager
• Project Supervisor
• Social services analyst
• The list of job opportunities is not exhaustive.

 

apply now

N-Power Community Education