ABSTRACT
In response to the increasing rate of
unemployment in Nigeria, N-POWER was established in 8 June 2016 by the Federal
Government to serve as an unemployment reduction agency through the job
creation programmes. The central problem which the study addressed was
assessing the extent to which the N-POWER has impacted on job creation in Maiduguri
Metropolitan. The objectives of the study were to identify and examine the
extent to which the N-POWER’s skills acquisition programmes, effectiveness of
training centre facilities and the funding pattern of skills training
programmes on job creation in Maiduguri Metropolitan. Systems theory was
adopted as theoretical framework for the study. The research design was survey design
and data was generated from both primary and secondary sources with
questionnaires, interviews and observations as the instruments for primary data
generation and annual reports, articles and text books as instruments for generating
secondary data. Also proportionate stratified random sampling and purposive
sampling techniques were employed for the study. The study found that the N-POWER’s
skills acquisition programmes have done minimal in reducing unemployment in the
State due to the increasing number of graduates and school leavers produce by
secondary and tertiary institutions every year and the low level of federal
government commitments for the programmes. The study further recommendate that
the N-POWER’s skills acquisition programmes should be enhanced by the federal
government through committing more resources, particularly, the human resources
in the areas of artisanship that will reach every local government area in the
State so that to enable the Directorate to tackle the challenge of increasing
number of unemployed graduates and school leavers produce by the schools and
tertiary institutions every year in the State.