How 200,000 Unemployed Graduates Will Get Jobs Before End of October – Presidency Reveals
The vice president has revealed that the implementation plans for the
effective commencement of a number of the social investment programmes
has reached advanced stages for the selection of the first 200,000
unemployed graduates to get jobs.
According to the Vice President, the Home-Grown School Feeding
programme is another section of the Social Investment programmes that
impact directly on the lives of Nigerian children and families. He said
several states will start implementing the Home-grown School Feeding
Programme before the end of October
While speaking with a small group of radio journalists and
producers at the Presidential Villa Abuja, on Tuesday, Vice President
Yemi Osinbajo, said that the implementation plans for the effective
commencement of a number of the social investment programmes has reached
advanced stages as the selection of the first 200,000 unemployed
graduates to get jobs is now being completed.
According to Premium Times, the VP said that “we expect that before the end of the month, we will engage 200,000,” out of the 500,000 unemployed graduates the Buhari administration plans to hire in the N-Power jobs programme.
He revealed that the direct government jobs is meant “to keep
this young people occupied, pay them some amount of money and also give
them a device, which will also help them to learn several skills that
they can develop as time goes on.”
Prof. Osinbajo added that “we expect that before the end of
this month, we should have engaged 200,000 of them and we are hoping
that before the end of the year we should have engaged more.”
Speaking further, the former Lagos state commissioner of justice,
disclosed that the Home-Grown School Feeding programme is set to kick
off in several states this month.
“Definitely before the end of this month, we expect that
several states would have come on stream with their Home-grown School
Feeding Programmes,” the Vice President noted.
He added that the Home-Grown School Feeding programme “will
energise agriculture in the different states because it is what you
plant that you feed the children with, we will be hiring caterers,
cooks, etc in each state because it will be Federal Government funded
from Primaries 1-3 and the state governments hopefully would be able to
cater for the other classes.”
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