Assures of support for FG’s public works programme selection committee
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, yesterday, restated that the ongoing enumeration exercise tagged: Data to Make Edo Great Again (Data to MEGA) will aid development planning, foster socio-economic development and improve livelihoods of Edo people.
Obaseki said this when Country Director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), Jean Bakole, and his delegation visited him at Government House, Benin City.
He said: “The enumeration exercise has over 1,200 young men and women, who have been trained to collect data from the people for social interventions and economic planning. Data from Oredo Council Area has already been collected in 20 days.”
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Leke Baiyewu, Abuja
Just like the Senate, the House of Representatives on Tuesday declined comments on the decision by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to ignore the resolutions of the National Assembly seeking a reversal of the sacking of Dr Nasiru Argungu, as the Director General of the National Directorate of Employment.
The Presidency had on Monday announced that Buhari had approved the appointment of Abubakar Fikpo as the acting Director-General of the NDE pending the appointment of a substantive DG.
The Senate had on December 10, 2020; and the House on December 15, 2020, urged Buhari to rescind the presidential directive sacking the former NDE DG. Buhari had, instead, directed Keyamo, who supervises the NDE, to nominate an acting DG for the agency.
From Ahmed Idris, Birnin Kebbi
The National Vice President 1 of Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities, Alhaji Abdullahi Aliyu Usman, has expressed dismay with the Minister of Labour and Productivity for not including their members among the beneficiaries of the extended Federal Government Special Public Works Programme of 774,000 job opportunities to Nigerians which was lunch last weekend in Kebbi. He stated this while briefing newsmen on Monday in Brinin Kebbi, saying that the programme which was launched on Saturday by the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Jika Mallami in Kebbi State did not involve their members among the beneficiaries. “Our members can even do better than people without disability. There is a need to include people with disabilities in any Government programme, we are also complete human beings like others” he added.
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, (SAN) has said that, the extended Federal Government Special Public Works Programme of 774,00 jobs opportunities to Nigerians was part of deliberate efforts and conscious strategies to address the ballooning population of unemployed youths and rising insecurity in some parts of the country.
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