The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo-led Federal Government, is set to recruit 300,000 youths, in the second batch of its N-Power Social Intervention and Job Creation programme.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this on Friday, in Isanlu-Isin community, near Omu-Aran town, in Kwara State.
While speaking to Journalists, Lai Mohammed said the Federal Government would, “reopen the N-POWER portal by next week, to commence the process for the recruitment.”
He enjoined the youths to take advantage of the recruitment exercise, by completing the application process online, adding that, 200,000 people benefited from the first batch of the programme.
The Minister noted that at least 27,000 people had benefited from the Conditional Cash Transfer programme, while the government had given 7,000 interest free loans to market men and women across the country.
The Minister said the Home Grown School Feeding programme of the government had covered over 1.2 million pupils, and that Kwara State would be on the team of the Social Intervention programme, in September.