Massive Recruitment @ Nigerian Peace Crops (NPC) 2017/2018 Latest News: The National Commandant of the Nigerian Peace Corps (NPC), Ambassador Dickson Akoh, has disclosed that the Corps would recruit over 800,000 youths the moment the National Assembly eventually passes necessary law supporting its operations.
With the recent development, as to the possibility of the passage of the bill into law by the Nigerian Senate, over 800,000 youths will be employed into this paramilitary body soon. Already, thousands of unemployed graduates from every State of the Federation have continued to storm the state offices of the organization for job registration.
The Aims and Objectives of Peace Corps are as follows:
- Promote Social and Economic Development by involving Members and Volunteers in the scheme through working with Government, Schools, Non-Profit Organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations, etc. in order to preoccupy the youths;
- To empower and pre-occupy Nigerian Youths through job creation and provision of alternative employment;
- Training Nigerian Youths with good virtuous, strong passion and commitment to the art of Patriotism, Volunteerism Community Services and Nation Building;
- To train and equip the Youths with knowledge for Peace Education, Conflict Resolution, Mediation, Reconciliation and Confidence Building;
To give distinct orientation to the Youths and engage them in the provision of essential services such as:
- Involving members of the Peace Corps in Community Services such as Immunization, Census and Sanitation Exercises, especially in urban cities, States and Local Government Capitals;
- Provision of Refuse Bins, Waste Baskets, and Handy Waste Bags in public buildings, buses and schools in order to obliterate littered materials;
- Assisting in planting of Economic trees and all forms of environmental conservation.
- Involve members and Volunteers of the Peace Corps in crowd control during public events and in neighborhood watch in order to curb insecurity within the community.
6 Create a Data Bank and reservoir of trained, qualified professionals and non-professional youths for easy accessibility of manpower from the pool of well-groomed youths whenever the Nation needs their services for either permanent employment or ad-hoc manpower for such national or international programmes as Emergency Relief Services, Voters’ Registration, Election Exercise , etc.
7 Provide security for all Educational Institutions and checking all forms of examination malpractices and other vices prevalent in Schools and Colleges in order to create a conducive atmosphere for learning. To achieve these, the Peace Corps shall:
- Establish Peace Corps Club in Schools and Colleges and involving members of the club in the promotion of internal understanding, Peace Education, Conflict Management and Transformation;
- Maintain surveillance on students organizing secrete societies; identify their members, associates, modus operands and to make such discoveries known to the appropriate authorities;
- Assist the school authority in the maintenance and enforcement of School Rules and Regulations;
- Detect any plot to vandalize valuable properties of the school or college or any form of dissident act of rioting by students or intruders in order to promote internal peace and security;
- Organize Holiday Camps for students where they would be involved in less academic work, but more of games, creative work, martial art, citizenship and leadership training, as well as other extra-curricular programmes and;
- Organize special conferences, seminars and workshops in order to equip the Nigerian youths in Leadership Building Mechanism, so as to prepare them both mentally, morally and physically for their future leadership roles.
8 Assist in youth developmental activities, Empowerment and Capacity Building for youth Creativity and Innovations, such as:
- Identify tools, techniques and the process of critical thinking, creativity, innovation and discovery to facilitate problem solving;
- Initiate and involving the youths in Humanitarian Services in Nigeria and around the world in order to aid transfer of knowledge and Technology;
- Helping the People of interested countries in meeting their needs for training young Men and Women and to promote a better understanding of Nigerians on the parts of the peoples served;
- Serve as Orderlies to members of the Executives, Parliament, Judiciary and Traditional Rulers that are not covered by existing Security Agencies;
- Engage Members as Tourists Assistants and Guide to Nigerian and foreigners on visit to the Country, Tourists Sites and other National and State Monuments and Heritage;
- Creation and Management of Public Toilets on highways, including enlightenment against defecation in public places, Recreational Centers, Tourist Sites, etc.; and
- To check all Forms of Examination Malpractices as may be perpetrated by students, invigilators, teachers, lecturers, and other educational staff.
Nigeria Peace Crops Recruitment / Job Information
Requirements for Applying for Nigerian Peace Corp:
- Applicant must be a holder of SSCE,NECO, GCE O/Level with minimum of five(5) credit in not more than 2 sittings, which should include English and Maths.
- Applicants must be between the ages of 18-25 years.
- Applicant must possess minimum of first degree from a recognized institution of higher learning.
- NYSC discharged certificate
- Applicants must be between the ages of 18-30 years.
General Application Requirements
- Applicants for the Nigeria Immigration Service recruitment must be Nigerian by birth.
- Applicants must be medically fit and present certificate of medical fitness from a government hospital.
- Applicant must be free from financial embarrassment.
- Applicant for the Nigeria Immigration Service recruitment must be between the ages of 18-30 years.
- Applicant's height must not be less than 1.65m for males and 1.60m for females.
- Applicant must be of good character and must not have been convicted of a criminal offense and must not be a member of a secret society/cult.
- Applicant's chest measurement of not less than 0.87m for men.
Applicants with any of the following disabilities are not to apply for the Nigeria Immigration Service recruitment:
- Impediment in speech (stammerer/dumb)
- Gross malformation of teeth
- Knocked knees
- Bent knees
- Bow legs
- K-legs
- Flat foot
- Limb legs
- Bent arms/deformed hands/fracture
- Defective eye sight (squint-eye, crossed eye, one-eyed and total blindness)
- Amputation of any part of physical body
- Hearing impaired (deaf)
- Hunched back
- Obesity
- Pregnancy or medical challenges and any other physical deformity not mentioned
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