34,000 APPLICANTS SEEK 1,000 POLICE JOBS IN BENUE. (PHOTO).

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 34,000 APPLICANTS SEEK 1,000 POLICE JOBS IN BENUE  No fewer than 34,000 applicants are competing for just 1,000 police recruitment slots in Benue State, highlighting the growing unemployment crisis, the police have said. The disclosure was made on Thursday by the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Musa Abdulraham, during a lecture at the Police Officers’ Mess in Makurdi. The event formed part of activities marking the 2026 Police Week. Speaking on “Prevention of Electoral Violence and Ballot Box Snatching,” Abdulraham linked youth unemployment to rising cases of electoral violence. He noted that thousands of jobless youths are often exploited by politicians to disrupt elections. He said the overwhelming number of applicants underscores the scarcity of employment opportunities in the state. “For example, in the ongoing police recruitment, 34,000 applied in Benue State for only 1,000 vacancies. If ...
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NYSC DRIVING YOUTH ENTERPRISE, HANDLE UNEMPLOYMENT – DG. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE

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 NYSC Driving Youth Enterprise, Handle Unemployment – DG


By Bridget Nwoye


The Director General DG of the National Youth Service Corps NYSC, Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, has reaffirmed the Scheme's key role in tackling youth unemployment in Nigeria. 


He made this assertion while briefing Group 2 members of the Senior Executive Course 48, 2026, of National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies who were are at NYSC Directorate Headquarters on a study tour with them on 

"Economic Diversification and National Development Leveraging the Orange Economy and Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Growth in Nigeria".


The NYSC helmsman expressed the course participants that the Scheme had trained a total of 1, 391,11 no9 young graduates in different vocational skills between 2019 and 2025 under its Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) programme.


Nafiu emphasized that the SAED was introduced in 2012 in line with one of the objectives of the Scheme, which is to enable Nigerian youths acquire the spirit of self-reliance by encouraging them to develop skills for self employment .


"With the Trust Fund, we will be able to give every Corps member that passes through the SAED training adequate capital to start their business of interest at the end of the service year," he said


He also assured that part of the group's recommendations to the government would be on the improvement the Scheme's capacity to deliver on its mandate of youth empowerment.

 

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