The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, said on Monday
that the Federal Government had received 800,000 applications for the
500,000 jobs promised the youth.
Speaking at the 5th Town Hall Meeting organised by the Federal
Ministry of Information in Enugu on Monday, Ngige advised the people of
the South East to explore the opportunity by registering on the web
portal.
He said that the jobs were mainly for teaching and skills acquisition as promised by the APC government.
He said that the administration had a good agenda for the unemployed youths irrespective of the current challenges facing it.
The minister said that 100,000 out of the 500,000 to be employed
would be trained as agricultural extension workers and deployed to rural
areas to assist the farmers with improved method of farming through the
partnership of the ministry of agriculture.
“I want our graduates to register so that they will not say that they
are marginalised when people that registered are selected,” he said.
He urged the governors and local government chairmen in the South
East to assist their youths to print the forms as many expressed
difficulty in accessing the portal.
Ngige regretted that youths neglected skills acquisition to chase
white collar jobs that were not in existence, adding that most skilled
jobs were being done by Ghanaians and people from other neighboring
countries.
“If our youths had acquired skills, they would be self employed and
reliant and shun Boko Haram, IPOB and Avengers,” the minister said.
He described Igbo youths as enterprising and hardworking and could
survive without depending on the government but had neglected their
values.
The minister explained that the current economic hardship the country
faced was because the past government neglected agriculture and failed
to save for the rainy day.
He admonished the Igbo to come out of the “persecution syndrome,’’
saying that the APC-led government was not marginalising any section of
the country. (NAN)
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