The Federal Government has begun making plans for the registration of jobless Nigerians around the country, reports say.
This was disclosed by the Acting Director General of theNational Directorate of Employment (NDE), Olakunle Obayan on Monday, November 30, 2015, ThisDay reports.
The unemployed citizens will be registered to enable them participate in a scheme which will see several needy individuals receive N5000 from the government on a monthly basis.
“Actually some of them (projects) are brand new and they are coming up in 2016. We are going to tenaciously pursue the employment generation activities of NDE and we are going to expand their scope,” Obayan said during the official handover by former Director General, Alhaji Abubakar Mohammed.
“This new schemes when they come on board, are schemes such that they are going to take care of the social security issues and something that will need majority of the people to get something doing.
“Besides, we have programmes that are for the graduates of the tertiary institutions as well. We have so many programmes that have been designed such that it will improve our service delivery system.
“We have some but we are going to improve on the information we have in our data base and we are going to make sure that it is something we can access from our different locations, even if you are down in the hinterland, you should be able to do so," he added.
The N5000 is expected to be paid by the government in line with a promise made by the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) during its presidential campaign.
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