By Nahum Sule (Taraba State Correspondent, in Jalingo)
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has engaged 75 unemployed graduates of tertiary institutions across the 16 local government of the state with various corporate organisations under its transient job creation scheme.
In an orientation program held on Friday last week at camp Lavert, the Director General of NDE, Mallam Abubakar Fikpo, said the scheme, Graduate Attachment Programme (GAP) is aimed at providing transient employment opportunities for graduates, enhancing their employability, reducing restiveness among the youths and the rate of long-term unemployment caused by the curtailment of employable entrants into the labour market.
Fikpo who was represented by the Taraba State Coordinator, Alhaji Danjuma Shehu, said the scheme would run for a period of three months, where each beneficiaries will be paid N20,000 per month.
In his words, “The 75 unemployed graduate of tertiary institutions have been recruited from all the 16 local government areas in Taraba state. Anybody who wish to participate must have completed the mandatory one-year national service with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
"But in some cases, OND/NCE certificate holders may be recruited where the interested persons who registered do not possess the degree/HND certificates and the state quota cannot be filled.
“Selection may include other criteria deemed expedient by the NDE State Coordinator, successful candidates should be documented, using the prescribe Job Centre and Inspectorate Forms with a recent passport photograph affixed”, he said.
He further stressed that under no account should any former participants of GAP or any NDE scheme/programme be recycled or persons who are employed recruited.
One of the participants, Mrs. Zainab Isa, assured on behalf of the participants that they would make the directorate proud by transforming their lives through the GAP scheme. NNL.