Unemployment in Nigeria
The March 15, 2014, stampedes that left at least 16 people dead during a recruitment exercise by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) had served the major purpose of drawing global attention to the alarming rate of unemployment in the country. About 520, 000 people were shortlisted for the NIS recruitment exams, at the end of which only 4,556 would have been recruited based on the available vacancies. To register for the exams, the applicants had paid N1000 each, meaning the NIS raked in about N520 million from jobless citizens.
The applicants were to sit for the exams at selected test centres in all the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, on that fateful day. In the FCT alone, it was reported that over 60,000 candidates thronged the M. K. O. Abiola Stadium, the venue of the recruitment exams, and were allowed access through only a single doorway, perhaps to avoid ‘gate crashing’.
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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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Insecurity: Resuscitate all moribund industries, Senate tells FG
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Asks FG to develop strategic framework for the promotion of the establishment, development of cottage industries in all the 774 LGAs
Urges States to set aside funds in their budgets for Cottage Industries
By Henry Umoru
THE Senate yesterday asked the Federal Government to as a matter of urgency, resuscitate all the moribund industries across the country in order to address the problem of unemployment, armed banditry, Kidnapping, other cases of insecurity, poverty, among others in Nigeria.
The Senate has also urged the Federal Government to through the Ministry of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs in conjunction with other relevant Ministries, Departments and Agencies develop strategic framework for the promotion of the establishment and development of cottage industries in all the 774 LGAs of