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Rabi'u Sani Ali
Jan, Fri, 2025

FG open to collaboration on job creation, says Dingyadi

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By Joan Nwagwu

The Federal Government says it is open to collaboration with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to achieve its goal of creating meaningful employment opportunities.

Mr Muhammad Dingyadi, Minister of Labour and Employment, said this when he received a consortium of NGOs, led by its national head, Mr Daniel Black. on Thursday in Abuja.

The consortium of NGOs is part of the United Nations NGO Committee on Social Development.

Dingyadi expressed government’s readiness to collaborate with the civil society organisations in generating creative ideas on how to create safe jobs for its citizens.

He said the jobs include the blue collar jobs, for the unemployed, particularly the youth.

“The federal government’s objectives, as well as initiatives, in this area are to ensure that people get jobs they can call their own.

“Also, jobs that they have tried to establish on their own; not white collar jobs but jobs that can generate a lot of employment for our youths.

“Our mandate is to create opportunities for jobs and to ensure the youths of the country are gainfully employed through several other means of engagement.

“We can collaborate to work towards creating jobs, very safe jobs for that matter, for our dear young men and women in the country,” he said.

On his part, Black, the leader of the group, said that they would be attending the 63rd session of the United Nations Commission for Social Development scheduled for February in New York.

Black said they would be sharing Nigeria’s social development experience at the event.

He said that in preparation for participation in the session, they would hold a United Nations Social Development workshop in Abuja.

He said the workshop was to foster collaboration between the government and Civil Society Organisations, to increase and improve the social development indicators in Nigeria.

“At the end of that workshop, we are going to develop a report that we will be presenting in New York during the 63rd session of the United Nations Commission for Social Development.

“The report will highlight the reality of social development in Nigeria, and we will also be mentioning the roles that different parastatals and government ministries are playing to ensure that these social development indicators are improved,” he said.

He invited the ministry to the workshop to share insights on its activities to positively impact social development indices in the country, and the strong connection between labour, employment and decent work. (NAN)(www.nannews.ng)

Edited by Oluwole Sogunle

Rabi'u Sani Ali
Nov, Fri, 2024

General News

Youths: FG, World Bank to provide 10m jobs in 5 yrs – Official

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By Franca Ofili

The Federal Government says it will collaborate with the World Bank, to provide decent jobs directly or indirectly to 10 million youths within the next five years.

Mr Ayodele Olawande, Minister of Youth Development, said this when he hosted the World Bank team led by Mr Maheshwor Shrestha, World Bank Economist, on Thursday in Abuja.

Olawande said that forum would enable him to update the team on the various activities and engagements of the ministry in the past months.

“The focus of the ministry has been to achieve the establishment of a strong coordinated mechanism for all youth intervention focused on economic inclusion and we want data to inform all we do.

”Provide decent jobs directly or indirectly for at least, 10 million youths within the next five years and ensure that every youth is proficient in at least, two income generating skills.

“Expand our credit support funds by 50 million dollars to reach more young people, including businesses led by going women, people with disabilities and young people in rural areas.’’

The minister said the current reality showed that 60 million youths were in the labour bracket, and an additional 5.5 million would join the labour market every year.

He said that almost 58 per cent of Nigeria’s informal workforce was young people.

“Despite these data, we see these opportunities for the development of the country if harnessed effectively,” he said.

Olawande said the challenges hinged on deficient skills for job market, relevant vocational training and lack of access to capital and funds safety with infrastructural deficit.

In his speech, Shrestha said that no fewer than 60 million youths in Nigeria were underage at the moment.

According to him, it means that Nigeria needs to create enough opportunities for a huge pool of youths that are already there and that will be joining the way.

He said that every year, 5 and a half million would reach paid working age.

Shrestha said that only seven per cent of the youths were engaged in paid jobs.

“And even those are not permanent jobs; there are still informal jobs. So, if we look at overall, 93 per cent of the youths are working in an informal sector.’’

According to him, the bank is figuring out how to improve safety net support towards such people, adding that, “what we are doing now is to think about how the framework applies at the state level.

“So, I think we are starting to work with the Governors’ Board of Secretaries to see how this approach applies at the state levels,” he said. (NAN)(www.nannews.ng)

Edited by Chijioke Okoronkwo