FG Plans N5m Jobs By 2010

The Federal Government has reaffirmed its resolve to creating five million jobs for the teeming unemployed Nigerian by the year 2010.
Minister of Labour and Productivity, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode, who made this known, said that the Federal Government is committed to the creation of at least five million jobs next year.
The Minister who affirmed this at the fifth national labour relations summit organised by the Michael lmodu National Institute for Labour Studies in llorin said the federal Government is aware of the alarming unemployment rate in country and it is on this backdrop that the national employment council was established to carter for the unemployed in the country.
He said “we must create at least five million jobs. We must give and we have no other option. It is a deliberate government policy”.
In his contribution, the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Employment, Labour and Productivity, Hon. Adebubu Audu who gave an update on the Labour Bill at the House of Representatives said that a public hearing was conducted to afford stakeholders the opportunity to contribute their own quota.
The Kwara State governor, Dr. Bukola Saraki, who was represented by the state Commissioner for health, Alhaji Ladi Hassan praised the initiative of the institute for bringing stakeholders together, to discuss issues that could adequately fashion out ways for the development of the country.

Corlins Walter