800,000 applicants have applied for n-power jobs - FG
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.
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.
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