Rivers
Ministry Partners FG To Boost Employment In Rivers
Rivers State Ministry of Em
ployment Generation and Empowerment has said it was seeking collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Labour to effectively leverage on employment generation and sustainable empowerment in the State.
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Employment Generation and Empowerment, Mrs. Comfort Iragunima stated this in her office during a meeting with officers of the Federal Ministry of Labour, led by the Zonal Director, South-South, Mrs. Omoabie Akpan.
Iragunima pointed out that the collaboration would handle some of the challenges the ministry is facing in seeking for jobs for the unemployed in the state, adding that the meeting with the Federal Ministry of Labour was to fast track processes to achieve best practices in employment generation and empowerment.
She pointed out that most of the problems associated with some companies not employing from their areas of operation and the state in general could be handled jointly by the State and Federal officials.
In her speech, the South-South Zonal Director, Federal Ministry of Labour, Mrs. Omoabie Akpan, said their visit to the ministry was to create awareness and sensitize the state on the availability of Trade Test Certificates for skills acquired.
Akpan said the Federal Ministry of Labour was ready to work with the state government to achieve the needed result in employment generation and empowerment of the citizenry.
She called on the citizens of the state to always avail themselves of the opportunities provided for their development by obtaining Trade Test Certificates from the Ministry of Labour after every empowerment training. The zonal coordinator assured that her ministry will critically study the Rivers State Employment Laws and harmonize it with the federal laws, and advise the ministry accordingly, adding that the Labour Ministry will continue to make available all necessary advise and technical assistance for employment generation and empowerment.
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