in , ,

Lagosians speak on Federal Government’s plan to employ 200,000 graduates in October

The Federal Government has announced on Tuesday, October 11, 2016, that the implementation of its Social Investment Programmes would commence before the end of this month.
This, according to a statement issued in Abuja by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the Vice President, Mr. Laolu Akande, is in fulfillment of the government’s campaign promises.
Mr. Akande noted that the Vice President, Mr. Yemi Osinbajo, confirmed that implementation plans for the effective commencement of a number of the Social Investment programmes of the Buhari presidency has reached advanced stages as the selection of the first 200,000 unemployed graduates to get jobs is now being completed.

Mr Osinbajo made this known while fielding questions in an interview with a small group of radio journalists and producers at the Presidential Villa.

“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.

“The direct government jobs are meant to keep these 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.

“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,” the statement quoted Mr. Osinbajo as saying.

The Vice President explained that on the Home-Grown School Feeding programme, this will kick off in several states by the end of October.

“Definitely before the end of this month, we expect that several states would have come on stream with their Home-grown School Feeding Programmes.

“This will energize 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,” Osinbajo was further quoted as saying.

encomium.ng on Wednesday, October 12, 2016 spoke with Lagosians on the new development.
In the chat, they reviewed their happiness if the Federal government can accomplish this at this time.

Mr. Bankole Saheed:“I am happy about this news. My younger brother is a graduate and he has been searching for job for the past 5years now, I will be the happiest person if the government can really stick with their words this time. God bless Nigeria.”

Jesica Obong: “I saw it in the news yesterday and I am happy about it because we have a lot of youths roaming the streets because they are jobless. Though this administration is not perfect, if they can do these despite the recession and low crude oil prices, they deserve our applause. Other crude oil exporting countries are also cutting cost. Only myopic individuals will not see this government strive in ensuring things work.”

Temi Oluwole: “I will not say I am happy or sad because I don’t trust this government at all. The month of October is almost ending, so when will these assumed graduates start working, I am just giving them a benefit of doubt.”

Titi Akindele: “This is a good development if it eventually happens because I am a graduate and I am yet to get a job. I have to go and learn a craft because there is no job so I am praying it happens.”

Samuel Babatunde: “I am happy if this will come to pass because of the amount of graduates Nigeria is pouring into the country with nothing to equip them. So they should do it.”

 

– GLORY OSIGWE

Encomium

Written by Encomium

A media, tech and events company.

What do you think?

Leave a Reply

Avatar

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Bread, biscuits and prices of other items to rise by 15% – Bakers warn

Igbonla kidnap: Lagos restates commitment to rid state of criminal elements