NPOWER 2017: See The Real Criteria Npower Used For Pre-selection

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 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 honored that invitation.

2017 Npower Application Breakdown

The Statement continued..
'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.' 

What Pre-selection is Not

The statement however emphasized and warn applicants and the General Public that pre-selection does not equate Final selection.

What do you think? Has this clarification done enough to convince you that the process for the Pre-selection of 2017 Npower volunteers was transparent? Please drop your opinion in the comment box.