The federal government has employed 200, 000
graduates to work as teachers and agricultural
extension workers across the country.
Laolu Akande, senior special assistant to the
vice president on media, disclosed this at the
second presidential economic communication
workshop in Abuja on Friday.
He said they would only work for two years.
“We have selected 200,000 graduates out of
500,000. This is the first batch,” he said.
“One hundred and fifty thousand will work as
teachers while 50, 000 will work as extension
workers.
“Their pay which is 30, 000 per month, will go
directly into their account.”
He said the selection process was completed “a
couple of weeks back,” but that BVN
screening for the candidates delayed the
exercise.
Akande explained that the new employees
would work in their states of residence, and
that their local governments would be in
charge of their supervision.
He added that another leg of the social
intervention programme, which is conditional
cash transfer to the poor, would kick off
soon.
