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The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, on Tuesday re-affirmed the commitment of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to job creation through bilateral and collaboration between the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Republic Korea in the area of technical and vocational education.

Ngige said: “You have written to the Federal Government through me that the increase in excise duty on alcohol and beverages will create job losses because once you add a new cost and pass it on, there will be consumer resistance, resulting in low patronage whereas the products coming from overseas that are being smuggled in which are cheap, will take over the market. It is a statement of fact.