As part of its efforts to reduce joblessness in the country, the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA, said it would employ the services of 17,000 youths under the Subsidy Re-Investment Empowerment Programme, SURE-P who will ensure the continuous maintenance of Federal roads across the country.

The youths, would be indigenes of the various communities located close to the 17,000 kilometers highway. The SURE-P Committee Convener on Public Works, Mrs Ngozi, Olojeme who led FERMA on an inspection tour fn road patches being carried out along Abuja-Keffi road, said the recruits would work in collaboration with FERMA engineers.

The project is an adaptive scaling-up of current FERMA direct labour agency activities. It is aimed at creating mass employment opportunities through the implementation of a national Road Maintenance Public Works Programme. The programme also focuses on the provision of safe and motorable trunk roads across the economic zones of the country

Her words: “4,556 youths have so far been employed out of the 10,000 previously targeted by the agency while we intend to engage the balance of 5,444 before the end of June this year. We will also employ another 17,000 youths. We want to involve indigenes along Federal roads as labourers. Those indigenes will be working on their own roads that affect their lives directly. The labourers should be the indigenes of the localities, while the leaders and heads of the team could come from anywhere a far as they are Nigerians”.

Continuing, she said: “FERMA is doing a great job, as you can see from our inspection from Abuja down to Nasarawa State all the road patterns are working; people are working hard to reduce portholes to zero level. What necessitated this outing is that we have to be working everyday to achieve our mandate; our mandate is to make sure Nigerians enjoy good roads and that is what we are out to do. We have been traveling to all the states in Nigeria to make sure these jobs are carried out and the results are achieved”.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/fg-to-recruits-17000-youths-for-road-maintenance/

Some die hard critics will soon start saying this is a lie.

Another opportunity to employ niger delta at the expenses of others.

sunjos79: Another opportunity to employ niger delta at the expenses of others.

Your mumu na first class. So FERMA only work on roads in the Niger Delta?

mosun_ade: Some die hard critics will soon start saying this is a lie.

...and if it is truuuu, wen dd FERMA employ 4,5++ ? Wen n ao is d 5,4++ bin employd or mayb 'June dis yr is stil veri farrrr'
....fcknnn fgur pemutazn n mtii proms

Ok ooo

hope the exercise will be transparent sha, just hoping..................

This is a good initiative. But implementing policies is our bane in this country. This 17000 will be made up largely of ghost workers. With the budget going into d pockets of corrupt politicians dont expect anything serious from this programme.

X-Presie:

...and if it is truuuu, wen dd FERMA employ 4,5++ ? Wen n ao is d 5,4++ bin employd or mayb 'June dis yr is stil veri farrrr'
....fcknnn fgur pemutazn n mtii proms

Bros abeg, are you one of the 40 Psychiatric escapees from Kenya hospital?. I just couldn't decipher your coded message..

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And we expect this guys to show committment to work? anyways na naija we dey. anything goes.

Burger01:

Bros abeg, are you one of the 40 Psychiatric escapees from Kenya hospital?. I just couldn't decipher your coded message..

lmaoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The headline should be 'FG TO FOLLOW O-YES FOOTPATH ' I beg mod rephrase am

mosun_ade: Some die hard critics will soon start saying this is a lie.

Their promise is real when FERMA starts to employ but for now lets jst assume is a lie.

Maintaining what? A road barely pliable? What a country!!!

How much is monthly salary?

emekatimsu: As part of its efforts to reduce joblessness in the country, the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA, said it would employ the services of 17,000 youths under the Subsidy Re-Investment Empowerment Programme, SURE-P who will ensure the continuous maintenance of Federal roads across the country.

The youths, would be indigenes of the various communities located close to the 17,000 kilometers highway. The SURE-P Committee Convener on Public Works, Mrs Ngozi, Olojeme who led FERMA on an inspection tour fn road patches being carried out along Abuja-Keffi road, said the recruits would work in collaboration with FERMA engineers.

The project is an adaptive scaling-up of current FERMA direct labour agency activities. It is aimed at creating mass employment opportunities through the implementation of a national Road Maintenance Public Works Programme. The programme also focuses on the provision of safe and motorable trunk roads across the economic zones of the country

Her words: “4,556 youths have so far been employed out of the 10,000 previously targeted by the agency while we intend to engage the balance of 5,444 before the end of June this year. We will also employ another 17,000 youths. We want to involve indigenes along Federal roads as labourers. Those indigenes will be working on their own roads that affect their lives directly. The labourers should be the indigenes of the localities, while the leaders and heads of the team could come from anywhere a far as they are Nigerians”.

Continuing, she said: “FERMA is doing a great job, as you can see from our inspection from Abuja down to Nasarawa State all the road patterns are working; people are working hard to reduce portholes to zero level. What necessitated this outing is that we have to be working everyday to achieve our mandate; our mandate is to make sure Nigerians enjoy good roads and that is what we are out to do. We have been traveling to all the states in Nigeria to make sure these jobs are carried out and the results are achieved”.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/fg-to-recruits-17000-youths-for-road-maintenance/

OK

emekatimsu: As part of its efforts to reduce joblessness in the country, the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA, said it would employ the services of 17,000 youths under the Subsidy Re-Investment Empowerment Programme, SURE-P who will ensure the continuous maintenance of Federal roads across the country.

The youths, would be indigenes of the various communities located close to the 17,000 kilometers highway. The SURE-P Committee Convener on Public Works, Mrs Ngozi, Olojeme who led FERMA on an inspection tour fn road patches being carried out along Abuja-Keffi road, said the recruits would work in collaboration with FERMA engineers.

The project is an adaptive scaling-up of current FERMA direct labour agency activities. It is aimed at creating mass employment opportunities through the implementation of a national Road Maintenance Public Works Programme. The programme also focuses on the provision of safe and motorable trunk roads across the economic zones of the country

Her words: “4,556 youths have so far been employed out of the 10,000 previously targeted by the agency while we intend to engage the balance of 5,444 before the end of June this year. We will also employ another 17,000 youths. We want to involve indigenes along Federal roads as labourers. Those indigenes will be working on their own roads that affect their lives directly. The labourers should be the indigenes of the localities, while the leaders and heads of the team could come from anywhere a far as they are Nigerians”.

Continuing, she said: “FERMA is doing a great job, as you can see from our inspection from Abuja down to Nasarawa State all the road patterns are working; people are working hard to reduce portholes to zero level. What necessitated this outing is that we have to be working everyday to achieve our mandate; our mandate is to make sure Nigerians enjoy good roads and that is what we are out to do. We have been traveling to all the states in Nigeria to make sure these jobs are carried out and the results are achieved”.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/fg-to-recruits-17000-youths-for-road-maintenance/

I saw a guy wearing a SURE-P jerseyvest about 2weeks ago at a road maintenance site along east-west road, PH. Well, my own concern is if Abuja will not carry fake names and fill the slots while they sit up there and collect the stipends....#GreedKnowsNoBounds

Road maintenance work for how much? N18,000.00?

Burger01:

Bros abeg, are you one of the 40 Psychiatric escapees from Kenya hospital?. I just couldn't decipher your coded message..

lolz same here bros...not untill i took my time to debug it.

fckyourman: All lies, Action First before talking. If they provide 17,000 Jobs it would be temporary since its construction work. Why not retrain them and give them capital to start their own business

Who said its permanent Are you okay

FERMA please employ those with the technical know how and not just because they are indigines.

Hmmm....17 000 youths 17 000 km of highway hmmm...1 youth maintaining 1 km of highway. I say no more.

Good, my dream for Nigeria, use our youth to do some jobs. that would keep them busy and atleast give them some sense of belonging.

I hope it will work out because THIS IS NIGERIA

Some people are naturally blind despite they can see with their two eye.All over Nigeria ferma is working,our roads are motorable.UP GEJ.

great development, if govt can creat dis number of employment to pple every year we wont be complaining of unemployment in nigeria.

Hope they are not going to be contract staffs?

mosun_ade: Some die hard critics will soon start saying this is a lie.

dnt worry na, it is a 'true'. Shebi dem don recruit u don see. Infact, na to collect salary remain!

Burger01:

Bros abeg, are you one of the 40 Psychiatric escapees from Kenya hospital?. I just couldn't decipher your coded message..

na wa o i think say na only me o