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Popular social media platform, Facebook, has disclosed that over 22 million Nigerians now use its space every month, with 87 percent of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) utilizing it for digital skills and more. This was disclosed recently by the public policy director, Facebook Africa, Ebele Okobi, during the launch of its Nigerian initiative to reinforce its commitment and investment in the country, and across the continent. According to her, Facebook’s mission was to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. And this demonstrates that the power of digital skills to aid economic growth and development has never been more important. “Our investments and commitments announced in Lagos today further reflect our intent to partner with Nigeria’s policymakers and its vibrant tech and entrepreneurial eco-system to create economic opportunity and independence in Nigeria and across Africa,” she said. Okobi disclosed that Faceb

This academy is a sponsored model, which enables accounting graduates who have completed their NYSC to gain professional qualification in accounting Program Overview The KPMG Accounting Graduate Academy has been developed to create an opportunity for qualified graduate accountants to join the firm upon completion of the mandatory National Youth Service Corps – NYSC. The academy enables accounting graduates and other eligible individuals to gain a professional qualification in accounting – ACA before they join KPMG. Some of the benefits include: ·    Graduates can become ACA qualified at no cost to them     ·    Lectures, Tuition, and daily lunch expenses are fully paid by KPMG     ·    A great Opportunity to learn from experienced professionals     ·    Opportunity for immediate employment upon ACA qualification Participants at the academy will undergo intensive lectures on a weekly basis before they take any of their ICAN exams. They will also have the opportunity for s

NPOWER 2017: See The Moments Npower's Twitter Handle Was Under Siege By Angry Applicants a number of apparently unsuccessful Npower 2017 applicants over the week took to Twitter and other social media channels to vent their anger and frustration at being left out of the programme. A lot of the aggrieved applicants alleged foul play and accused the Npower team of not being completely honest with the recruitment process. Although the Npower has through their social media channels continue to outline what processes are involved at each stage of the exercise, appearing to carry everyone along, there still appear to be a number of applicants who were not satisfied. for instance, the Npower Boss, Mr, Afolabi had in one of their live Facebook chat, alerted 2017 Applicants that much more people will be left out this year as against the previous year. Reason being that in 2016 the Npower team had to choose 200,000 applicants out of a total of 350,000 applications. However in 2017 a

Npower Selection Criteria for 2017  following heated concerns and arguments on social media on the integrity of the just published shortlist of pre-selected applicants for the 2017 Npower programme, those in the eye of the storm the Npower team has published the criteria for their selection to douse tension and clear the air. The Npower through its official Facebook page this morning made public the criteria for selection. the statement read in full; '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. Distribution of 2017 Application by State 'In 2017, N-Power is committed to improving on

Nigerian-born Chris Imafidon is a Professor at the University of Oxford, England. Though autistic, Imafidon, whose children have been described as world’s brainiest kids, tells ‘NONYE BEN-NWANKWO, how he got to the height he has achieved. You were at the University of Ilorin recently during their graduation and you said you would give a scholarship to the worst graduating student. Why? You might need to ask my grandmother that because she believes that every child, without exception, has a lot to contribute to the society. She would find out what you are capable of doing. In my own generation, I try to implement what she lived by. She didn’t just preach it, she did it. She was interested in every child. I did what she would have done. She is gone now. But I am here to represent her voice. I must not let her voice be unheard in my generation, I will always echo it and my mantra is that every child is a genius. If every child is a genius, then it shouldn’t matter if y

Congratulations to all the 2017 Applicants! I mean; what a wait! It was almost like forever. But then the N-power has announced through its social media channels that names will be released by close to midnight on Monday, 20th and N-power applicants will be able to check on the N-power website if they have been successful in the pre-selection.  Remember this will not be the final list as there will be physical verifications at your local governments for all the items necessary for enrolment in the N-power programme.  Remember the whole journey? Online application, BVN Validation, Assessment test and all that and now by Monday, pre-selection would be completed. But then a lot of people are asking how they would check their names.  Well after uploading the list on the internet, and test running it, the N-power will be able to let us know how applicants will log in to check their names. But it surely will have to be a combination of any two of the following information that

N-build N-Build is an accelerated training and certification (Skills to Job) programme that will engage and train 75,000 young unemployed Nigerians in order to build a new crop of skilled and highly competent workforce of technicians, artisans and service professionals. The seven components of the N-build include; Automobile Carpentry and Joinery Electrical Installation Masonry Painting and Decoration Plumbing and Pipefitting Welding and Fabrication Selection Criteria Before you will be verified for selection, you must be; Currently Unemployed No degree or diploma Selection preferences Aged between 18-35 Interest in fixing, building and creating things For Pre-selection screening, Pre-selected applicants are to present the following; ID Card- Acceptable National Identity that shows your name, Birth Certificate- Documents that corroborates your age, Proof of address of residence. Verified applicants will be enrolled in the programme that will last for 12 m