FG To Permanently Employ Over 30,000 Nigeria Graduates, See How

FG Has Approved the Permanent Employment Of 30,000 Nigeria Graduates For Extension Service among other Federal Government Jobs.

OnyxNews Nigeria gathered that the Federal government led by President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the employment of over 30,000 graduates who would be trained on how to render extension services to farmers, collect soil samples and conduct soil tests.

This online news platform understands that the Executive Secretary of the National Land Development Agency (NALDA), Prince Paul Ikonne who made this known during a media chat in Abuja on Monday said the graduates would embark on two weeks of intensive training.

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He said: “They will be trained intensively for two weeks on soil sample collection and soil tests for them to acquire knowledge in the soil test and soil collection.”

Prince Ikonne added that the graduates will have backgrounds in agriculture or sciences.

He explained that the employment is based on President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval and the official launch of the National Young Farmers Scheme.

He said the training is going to be free of charge for them, and they will be given soil test kits and the soil collection samples kits at the end of the training.

Speaking on the mode of selection, he said they will be selected by their state governments.

He further explained that farmers will be made to pay as low as N500 per sample collected, NALDA will shoulder the rest including soil test kits and the soil collection samples kits.

“Over the years, farmers go to the farm just do their normal thing, open the soil put their maize or their wheat without a soil test to ascertain the nutrient that the soil requires.

“The fertilizer dealers take advantage of that to sell all kinds of fertilizers to farmers at the end of the day the desired yield will not be achieved.

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