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Federal Government Has Created Millions Of jobs - Lai Mohammed by debolayinka(m): 2:26pm On Feb 05, 2018 |
The federal government has created millions of jobs through its various programmes cutting across many sectors, the minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said. Speaking at the 6th Graduation Ceremony of the Empowerment Support Initiative (ESI), founded by former Rivers state first lady Dame Judith Amaechi, in Port Harcourt on Saturday, February 3, the minister said over 7 million jobs have been created in the agriculture sector alone. His words: “In agriculture, for example, this administration has created over 7 million jobs. When the administration assumed office in May 2015, about 5 million farmers were engaged in rice production. Thanks to the administration's Anchor Borrowers Programme, the number of farmers engaged in rice production today stands at 12.2 million. These are verifiable facts, not fiction.” He said 69,736 jobs have been created in the power, works and housing sector, while the administration's National Social Investment Programmes have created at least 200,000 jobs, in addition to empowering 500,000 others under the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP). “The federal ministry of power, works and housing has created 69,736 jobs (direct and indirect) across the country. The power sector projects created 1,740 jobs, the works sector created 38,391 jobs, while the Housing Sector created 29,605 jobs," he said. The minister also said the Home-Grown School Feeding Programme, through which 6.4 million school children in 33,981 schools across 20 states are being fed with one meal a day, has created jobs for 61,352 cooks. He commended Dame Amaechi for establishing the ESI programme, which is an entrepreneurial and skills acquisition programme for youths and women of the Niger Delta, saying such programmes complement the Federal Government's efforts to provide jobs for the citizens. “National development is not just the duty of the government, but that of the citizens. In other words, all of us, as citizens, have a role to play in ensuring the development of our nation. This has bee amply demonstrated by Dame Judith Amaechi in setting up this Empowerment Support Initiative,” the minister said. He charged the graduands to make the best use of the opportunities that the ESI programme has given them, saying that is the best way they can justify the efforts of the ESI founder. Similarly, Nigeria’s minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that the government is doing everything possible to reverse the unemployment rate in the country. The minister made the comment when a delegation from Dudley College of Technology, United Kingdom in partnership with the Empowerment Support Initiative (ESI) paid him a courtesy visit at his residence in Abuja. His words: “The government of Nigeria is doing everything possible to eradicate unemployment, we are creating jobs and engaging the youth at various levels of skills acquisition. We have improved on our railway transportation and you can imagine the number of youth that have been engaged in the project, same thing in other sectors.” |
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