We Ve Recruited 500,000 Graduates, To Begin Work In December- FG

Professor Osinbajo.

The Federal Government of Nigeria's  500,000 job intervention programme for unemployed graduates has finally kicked off, with successful applicants commencing work on December 1, 2016, this is according to a statement from the office of the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo.


The programme is in line with the 2015 election campaign promises of ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to provide jobs for teeming unemployed youths in the countr The fulfilment is, however, coming precisely one year and seven months after the administration came on stream.

The project has had several hiccups, which elicited doubts in many Nigerians about its practicability. This persisted until the Office of the Vice President where the project is domiciled, announced that it was factored into the 2016 national budget signed into law by President Buhari on May 6, 2016.

To this end, a statement from the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s office yesterday stated that “all is now set for the deployment of 200,000 unemployed graduates selected in the first batch of the Buhari administration’s plan to hire half a million Nigerians.”