President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been urged to tap into the benefits of the Igbo apprenticeship system in order to tackle the scourge of youth unemployment in Nigeria.
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“Having reviewed the relevant texts of the resolution concerning statistics of the economically active population, employment, unemployment and underemployment (and) recognising the need to revise and broaden the existing standards in order to enable better statistical measurement of participation of all persons in all forms of work and in all sectors of the economy; of labour underutilization; and of interactions between different forms of work; as well as to provide guidelines on a wider set of measures than previously defined internationally, thereby calling attention to the usefulness of these standards to enhance the international comparability of the statistics, to their contribution to the measurement of decent work and of well-being of households and society in general, thereby supporting and facilitating the post-2015 development agenda, as well as to the achievement of gender justice, acknowledging that the relevance of measures of work in a given country will depend on the nature of its society, labour markets and all user needs, and that their implementation will therefore, to a certain extent, be determined by national circumstances, (hereby) adopts the following resolution in substitution for the resolutions of 1982 and of 2008.”
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, has signalled the desire of President Bola Tinubu administration to ameliorate poverty among the citizenry.
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has advocated for closer academia and industry partnerships to foster industrialisation, economic growth and enhance employability of university graduates in Africa.
The two day Summit which is themed “Sustainable Job Creation Strategies: Collective Action and Prosperity for All”, will foster deliberations about progressive economic and social solutions to unemployment problems in the state.
This came via the adoption of a resolution by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila on the consideration of its reports on the National Security Summit.
The President, who spoke during an exclusive interview with a team of Arise Television Executives, led by its Chairman Prince Nduka Obaigbena, also confessed it has been extremely difficult fighting corruption under a democratic setting.
The Financial Director of NDN, Samuel Iyapo, made the call in a statement in Abuja.
The governor, who stated this during a special thanksgiving service to commemorate his second year in office, held at the Cathedral of St. Peter, Aremo, Ibadan, also promised to provide more equipment for security agencies.
The Minister, Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Adeniyi Adebayo, stated this on Thursday in Jos at the 2020 ITF Merit Award ceremony.
This was part of the recommendations made by the Chairman of the United Bank for Africa Plc, Tony Elumelu, in his address at the Joshua Generation International Youth Conference, hosted at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in Enugu State.
Its President, Toki Mabogunje, revealed this on Tuesday in Lagos at a news conference organised in collaboration with a group: The Future Project, in Lagos on plans to train 1,000 young Nigerians under the Future Africa Internship Programme.
Nigeria, he said, is at the precipice and that it is obvious the current administration lacks the capacity to address its challenges.
Tinubu made the appeal in a remark at the opening of the 2021 annual Arewa House Lectures, which he chaired on Saturday in Kaduna.
Bala-Getso, who revealed this when he led management of the school on a courtesy visit to Kano State House of Assembly on Tuesday, said the school graduates no fewer than 700 students annually, but most find it difficult to secure employment in the state.
Tofowomo made the call at the end of a seven-day solar power empowerment programme, as one of his 2020 constituency projects, for more than 100 youth in Ondo South Senatorial District in Ile-Oluji on Sunday.
Abaribe said this when an NGO, International Day for Tolerance and Peace Promotion (ID4TAPP) visited him.
Lawan gave the warning during the opening of the 2021 budget defence of the Ministry of Agriculture.
The Nigerian business magnate and politician gave the view in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos, described the entertainment industry as a gold mine.