Eta Mbora, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) member of the house of representatives, has introduced a bill seeking to provide automatic employment for graduates after their National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme.

The legislation seeks to amend the NYSC act to enable the military, paramilitary agencies and other special services recruit willing graduates immediately after they have completed the one-year youth service.

The amendment bill scaled first reading at the green chamber on Thursday.

The NYSC act, as it currently is, does not provide any employment window for youth corps members after the programme.

In an interview with TheCable on Friday, the lawmaker, who represents Calabar Munincipal/Odukpani federal constituency of Cross River state, said the bill will help address Nigeria’s unemployment problem.

He said if passed into law, it would help graduates desirous of joining the military, paramilitary agencies or special services to do so after they have completed their NYSC programme, provided they meet the agencies’ requirements.

“At the conclusion of their service year, there should be a process where the agencies will examine those interested to determine their qualifications to be employed,” he said.

“They should be able to now enrol them after the completion of service; that is for those qualified. That way, it can address the unemployment problem and job scams in Nigeria.

“Those willing to join the military and paramilitary agencies and other special services should be able to do so since they have served their country.”

Mbora added that the bill seeks to officially increase the allowance of corps members to cater to their needs.

He said although the federal government recently increased the allowance, the action is not backed by the law and will only be legal with the amendment.

Despite being Africa’s biggest economy, Nigeria’s unemployment rate is very high. It rose to 23.1 percent at the third quarter of 2018.

The federal government has sought various remedies to check this trend, including introducing through schemes like the N-Power programme, but there is still a big gap.

Rapmoney:
OK. That's good.

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Where is the tradermoni advert officer?

StreetFight:


He is somewhere where your parents will nevrer ever reach.

Bewiseedet:
This BILL would be knocked out by they FAILED BUHARIST. Watchout n see.

Rapmoney:


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Poor boy. I'm very sure you have not eaten any decent meal today!

Keep having sleepless nights because of my posts.

At least, I know my parents but you...you were abandoned by your parents who couldn't even afford to feed you ONCE a day.

itsme01:
600,000 frsh graduate being recruited yearly into the civil service... my question is what exactly is civil servants producing to support our GDP or we just want everyone to earn from the tiny oil revenue

If the government cut down their extravagant lifestyle, why won't it work

Abi na to dey produce while they themselves go dey patronize other country

You can't ask us to produce rice and patronize our own

While we produce cars and you buy from other country

How are they growing our GDP

Wiseandtrue:

If the government cut down their extravagant lifestyle, why won't it work

itsme01:


simple mathematics its not economically feasible even if we don't have politician, so long our income largely is on 2mbpd crud oil

It's simple logic!!!

If government can live extravagantly on 2mbpd crude oil

They can make electricity stable, build Good roads, provide basic social amenities!!!

There are some countries without crude oil and they are not over taxing their citizens and they are doing well!!!

Their leaders are not greedy, they ensure their citizens see what they are paying for via tax

And we have the population

So what is this much Ado about crude oil afterall Buhari has been shouting diversification

So what's the problem

Wiseandtrue:

It's simple logic!!!

If government can live extravagantly on 2mbpd crude oil

They can make electricity stable, build Good roads, provide basic social amenities!!!

There are some countries without crude oil and they are not over taxing their citizens and they are doing well!!!

Their leaders are not greedy, they ensure their citizens see what they are paying for via tax

And we have the population

So what is this much Ado about crude oil afterall Buhari has been shouting diversification

So what's the problem

*There are some countries without crude oil and they are not over taxing their citizens and they are doing well!!!--- I bet you rely on nonsense they feed you, try paying tax in UK, US , Canada or any other countries that borrowed to fix its infrastructure and then come and repeat this

*So what's the problem what moved Singapore from poor to rich country is investement in infrastructure and rising its debt to GDP to 150% when Nigeria has less than 20%, same as Dubai and US they borrow heavily for infrastructure then the citizens can now expand their creativity and earn taxable income

Eta Mbora, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) member of the house of representatives, has introduced a bill seeking to provide automatic employment for graduates after their National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme.