Zulum Launches Borno Job Portal, Set to Accept Application from Two Million Job Seekers

  • The portal is the brainchild of the newly established ministry of science, technology and innovation.
  • Database to be generated will also be used for the government’s planning purposes.

Borno Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has launched “Borno Jobs portal” with the capacity to accommodate profiles of two million jobs’ seekers from across the 27 local government areas of the state.

The portal was created by the newly established ministry of science, technology and innovation under its commissioner Babagana Mustapha.

The aim of the portal aims to generate a database that will contain educational and professional expertise of all categories of citizens for the purpose of identifying potentials for employment at the federal, state, local government and private sector levels as well as create opportunities for capacity development and entrepreneurship.

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During the launch of the portal at the council chambers of the government house in Maiduguri, Governor Zulum said the portal aim to youths unemployment contained in one of ten points pacts upon which he based his pre-election campaign.

He further stated that the database generated is to used in not only creating jobs for applicants within the state but also, for a committee he has since established, to identify job opportunities at the federal and private sectors for Borno citizens who have education and skills required to fill available vacancies.

The Governor, therefore, directed the ministry of science, technology and innovation to work with ministries of education, higher education, information and the government house press unit towards the creation of public Internet access centres and e-libraries across the 27 local government areas ‎to increase access for jobs seekers and enhance reading culture of students.

Speaking, Dr Mustapha told the Governor that aside from the issue of jobs, database to be generated will be used for government’s planning purposes and for sharing with vocational skills centres being built in different parts of the state so that they can engage those with particular skills required for their activities.

The portal which can be accessed via jobbank.bornostate.gov.ng.

According to the commissioner, it‎ also allows applicants to upload their current certificates and enter their skills while there is room to update their information in future, including emails and phone numbers.

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Dr Mustapha explained that the applicants are to create their own user names and passwords which make them in full control of their accounts while the ministry will‎ guarantee the privacy of all accounts.

He added that the ministry will at various times contacts applicants found to have requirements for jobs opportunities and for vocational training.

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