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On, Sunday, the Senior Special Assistant to the Acting President on Media Publicity, Mr Laolu Akande, disclosed that the Federal Government will employ an additional 350,000 graduates in 2017. According to Akande, the graduates will be employed under the N-Power Volunteer Corps, a component of the government’s Social Investment Programmes (SIPs).

According to Akande, President Muhammadu Buhari had requested an appropriation of 157.75 billion naira in the 2017 budget estimates for the N-Power scheme.

“350,000 unemployed graduates more would be hired and trained, alongside 50,000 non-graduates youths to be engaged as artisans and in other creative ventures,” Akande said.

Akande disclosed that under the 157.75 billion naira, a sum of 4.5 billion niara has been earmarked for science, technology, engineering and mathematics programme to support young Nigerians in building skills in those disciplines.

Akande further stressed that the SIPs’ budget proposals for 2017 would be discussed this week at the National Assembly and urged Nigerians to expect more initiatives especially in the area of implementation as virtually all of the SIPs are now undergoing different stages of implementation.

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