Presidency postpones employment of 200,000 graduates

– Presidency says it is working to ensure that the 200,000 graduates have their jobs across the state of the federation by December 1, 2016

– The presidency says the successful candidates will receive messages today, November 21 and will also have their names published on the internet portal where they applied


President Buhari and vice president Yemi Osinbajo have moved the employment date forward again

The presidency has again postponed the employment of 200,000 graduates which had been earlier slated for this month.


The presidency confirmed an additional one-week postponement of the employment of the graduates in a statement made available to NAIJ.com on Sunday, November 20 and signed by Laolu Akande, a senior special assistant on media and publicity to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

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The statement explained that the graduates will now start work on December 1, 2016 even as the successful candidates will start receiving messages of their deployments on Monday, November 21.


The statement read: “While the 200,000 have been selected about two weeks ago, their names have now been sent to state governments and the FCT who would deploy them to their specific programme assignments.



“The names would also be published this week on the N-Power internet portal, while the participants would start receiving SMS messages informing them of their selection as from Monday November 21, 2016.”

It added: “Between now and the end of the month, the states and the FCT would be engaged in deploying the graduates who would formally start working and earning their stipends on December 1, 2016.

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“Of the 200,000 first batch, 150,000 of them would teach, 30,000 would work in the Agric sector and 20,000 in Healthcare delivery covering the three specific programme assignments.”

NAIJ.com recalls that the presidency had initially said that the 200,000 graduates would be employed by October but later confirmed that that month was not feasible and it should all be completed by November. The employment has now moved to December.

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