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.
Speaking with a small
group of radio journalists and producers at the Presidential Villa, Vice
President Yemi Osinbajo disclosed that “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.
According to him, the
direct government jobs is meant “to keep this 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.”
Prof. Osinbajo added
that “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.”
Similarly, Mr. Osinbajo
disclosed that the Home-Grown School Feeding programme is set to kick off in
several states this month.
“Definitely before the
end of this month, we expect that several states would have come on stream with
their Home-grown School Feeding Programmes,” the Vice President noted.
-Premium Times
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