Job Creation And Youth Employment Top Priority Of FG – Keyamo

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo,
has said that job creation and youth employment are part of the top
priorities of President Buhari’s Next Level agenda.

The minister stated this when he received the Pan African Youth
Union led by Mr. Niyi Oladele John, on a courtesy visit.

He said the problem of insecurity was all over Africa and that
the situation could be heightened by youths who are not gainfully
employed.

“The thinking here in the Ministry of Labour and Employment and
this government is that the issue of youth employment and job
creation should be top on our agenda and that is why Mr. President
has decided to strengthen the ministry and its agencies, especially
the National Directorate of Employment (NDE).

“There are a lot of programmes under the ministry and its
parastatals that are basically aimed at empowering our youths by
making sure that they acquire basic skills to enable them survive
on their own,” he said.

He then enjoined the youth union to generate a data base of
youths with skills that the federal government could use to
identify those to train and empower, adding that by doing so,
government would have met the objectives of the union.

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