SURE-P Engages 3,000 Graduates In Internship Scheme




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SURE-P Engages 3,000 Graduates In Internship Scheme






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SURE-P Engages 3,000 Graduates In Internship Scheme


— June 22, 2014

The Chairman, Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P), Gen. Martin-Luther Agwai (rtd.), said no fewer than 3,000 persons had been engaged by the programme in its Graduate Internship Scheme.


Agwai made this known when he featured at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja.


He said that the beneficiaries were recruited from more than 150,000 graduates who applied to serve under the scheme from 2013 to date.


He said that the youth were serving in different public and private organisations where they were posted to acquire on-the-job experience.


According to him, the scheme is to help Nigerian graduates to acquire skills that will make them suitable for full employment in any sector of the economy.


Agwai said that SURE-P was collaborating with companies and other organisations as well as individuals for the sustenance of the scheme.


He explained that while on the internship at the companies, the Federal Government, through SURE-P, paid each intern a stipend of N30,000 per month, adding that the allowance to the graduates was to encourage them to be committed to the training.


“The Federal government, having discovered that most of our graduates are not employable immediately after they leave school, decided to introduce the scheme.


“We hope that after one year internship, the organisations will employ them or they will be more marketable with the experience they have acquired,” he explained.


Agwai said that some state governments had indicated interest in the scheme, adding that Borno, Plateau, Adamawa, Gombe, Kaduna, Kogi and Enugu states were already collaborating with SURE-P on the programme.


He said that a new scheme on technical and vocational training was inaugurated by the programme on June 17, adding that 5,075 persons were already being trained under the scheme across the country.


He said that eight government institutions which were renovated by SURE-P in parts of the country were currently being used for the scheme.


He disclosed that Lagos and Kano states had more participants in the scheme, because of the huge presence of companies and big industries in both states. (NAN)








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