N-power realeases its application breakdown for 2017

N-power, the federal government
employment scheme for youths has on
Thursday, November 23 released the
breakdown on how 2017 applicants were
selected.
The N-power, on Monday, November 20
released steps in which candidates can
check their pre- selection status and
many candidates have demanded to
know the criteria in which the selection
were made.
The N-power released the break-down
on their Facebook page and it read in
full:
The 2017 Application
The N-Power programme commenced in
2016. The first 200,000 N-Power
beneficiaries were selected from 350,000
Graduate applications.
In 2017, the N-Power portal opened up
for Graduate applications on the 13th of
June. Applications received were 403%
more than the Graduate applications
received in 2016. As at the time, the
application process closed in July 27th,
2017, 2,543,079 people had applied for
the N-Power Graduate Programmes.
In 2017, N-Power is committed to
improving on the lessons learnt in 2016.
To avoid some payment issues that
plague(d) the 2016 beneficiaries, the BVN
validation stage was introduced. Here,
applicants whose names didn’t match
their BVN were precluded from
proceeding to the Assessment Test phase
stage.
2,258,266 people scaled through the BVN
validation stage. They were consequently
invited to proceed to the Assessment Test
Phase. 1,746, 454 people honoured that
invitation.
In selecting the 300,000, we took the
following into consideration
1. BVN Validation and Online
Assessment
2. Achieving equity
3. Linking selection to population using
Federal Constituencies
4. Addressing Demand Distribution of
Unemployed Graduates
5. Taking into account, Deployment/
Utilization issues from 2016
6. Correcting Deployment/Utilization
challenges among 2016 N-Power
beneficiaries
7. Rural-Urban Distribution Balance.
Priority was given to the Rural Areas
especially N-Agro applicants
8. Programme Allocation – Teach/Agric/
Health
300,000 have been pre-selected for the
physical verification stage. Applicants
and the General Public must note that
pre-selection does not equate final
selection.