200,000 WILL BE EMPLOYED BY THE END OF OCTOBER... - OSINBAJO

The vice president has revealed that
the implementation plans for the
effective commencement of a number
of the social investment programmes
has reached advanced stages for the
selection of the first 200,000
unemployed graduates to get jobs.
While speaking with a small group
of radio journalists and producers
at the Presidential Villa Abuja, on
Tuesday, Vice President Yemi
Osinbajo, said that the
implementation plans for the
effective commencement of a
number of the social investment
programmes has reached advanced
stages as the selection of the first
200,000 unemployed graduates to
get jobs is now being completed.
According to Premium Times, the
VP said that “we expect that before
the end of the month, we will
engage 200,000,” out of the 500,000
unemployed graduates the Buhari
administration plans to hire in the
N-Power jobs programme.
He revealed that the direct
government jobs is meant “to keep
this young people occupied, pay
them some amount of money and
also give them a device, which will
also help them to learn several
skills that they can develop as time
goes on.”
Prof. Osinbajo added that “we
expect that before the end of this
month, we should have engaged
200,000 of them and we are hoping
that before the end of the year we
should have engaged more.”
Speaking further, the former Lagos
state commissioner of justice,
disclosed that the Home-Grown
School Feeding programme is set to
kick off in several states this
month.
“Definitely before the end of this
month, we expect that several states
would have come on stream with
their Home-grown School Feeding
Programmes,” the Vice President
noted.
He added that the Home-Grown
School Feeding programme “will
energise agriculture in the
different states because it is what
you plant that you feed the children
with, we will be hiring caterers,
cooks, etc in each state because it
will be Federal Government funded
from Primaries 1-3 and the state
governments hopefully would be
able to cater for the other classes.”
According to the Vice President, the
Home-Grown School Feeding
programme is another section of
the Social Investment programmes
that impact directly on the lives of
Nigerian children and families. He
said several states will start
implementing the Home-grown
School Feeding Programme before
the end of October.




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