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| Job Creation: Fg Have Failed Nigerians. Fg To Create 4 Million Jobs Next Year by dove24u(m): 9:52am On Dec 16, 2009 |
THE Federal Government, on Tuesday, admitted that it had failed Nigerians in the area of job creation, saying youth unemployment remained the biggest challenge facing the country today. Minister of Labour and Productivity, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode, who stated this in Abuja, during the launch and public presentation of the Final Report of the National Youth Employment Template, said the country, over the last 10 years, had been witnessing “growth without development,” a factor, he said was responsible for the acute job crisis Nigeria was facing today. This is even as the Minister of Youth Development, Senator Akinlabi Olasunkanmi, revealed that over 60 per cent of Nigerians were unemployed, or under-employed, with the Nigerian youth the worse hit. Olasunkanmi, however, said that arrangements had been concluded to create about four million jobs next year, with the commencement in January 2010 of full implementation of the National Youth Employment Policy and Nigerian Youth Employment Action Plan (NIYEAP), already approved by the Federal Executive Council. He pointed out that the NIYEAP, prepared by his ministry, provided a multi-sectoral approach to the issue of youth joblessness, documenting the responsibility of each ministry, departments and agency and other levels of government. On the four million jobs, he said the Ministry of Information and Communications, in collaboration with the National Communications Commission (NCC), had finalised plans to create one million jobs within the ICT sector. The minister added that the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources had also commenced work on creation of two million jobs in the extension services, in addition to the one million jobs his youth ministry was working on, in collaboration with the private sector by next year. But Adetokunbo said: “Youth unemployment is the biggest challenge facing our country today. We are not able to create opportunities for employment for the Nigerian youth. The issue is that should we continue like that? Something really has to be done and that is exactly what this government is trying to do.” He added that “At my own level, I have made employment, job creation, capacity building and training the most important and number one mandate of my Ministry of Labour. We also have a plan for employment. I am committed, as the Minister of Youth Development, to do everything to bring about creation of jobs for Nigerians.” Speaking further, Senator Olasunkanmi stated that the recent World Bank report on Growth and Employment in Nigeria covering 1999 to 2006 was an indictment of the Nigerian government, saying the report affirmed that “growth performance in Nigeria has not responded to the employment aspirations of its population as a whole, especially the younger generation.” He said: “We are particularly concerned with the question of job creation due to threats widespread youths joblessness pose to the collective security of the nation and the orderly development of the society. “At home and abroad, high youths joblessness is an explosive scenario as idle youths are becoming ready made tools in the hands of criminal kingpins across the country,” he said. Yearly, thousands of graduates are churned out from the nation’s universities into the labour market without corresponding job opportunities. Thus, the minister said the template had provided key six areas of the nation’s economy that job opportunities would be created for the teeming youths, adding that there was the need also for retraining of some of the youths in some of the employment initiatives.  http://www.tribune.com.ng/16122009/news/news2.html |
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