The 300,000 graduates were picked from a pool of 2,543,079 applicants. N-Power has revealed that 300,000 Nigerian graduates have been preselected for the physical verification stage of the Federal Government-run empowerment scheme.While 350,000 people had applied for the programme last year, 2,543,079 people submitted applications for the 2017 recruitment, a 403% increase.According to a breakdown released on N-Power’s official Facebook page on Thursday, November 23, 2017, Lagos State has the highest number of applicants for this year’s recruitment with 174,994 applications while Sokoto State has the lowest with 22,501 applications. The breakdown revealed that new measures were introduced in 2017 to avoid the problems encountered in the previous year.It read, “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.
