FG targets 20,000 jobs annually through NJFP

The Federal Government of Nigeria is targeting the instauration of astatine slightest 20,000 jobs annually done the motorboat of the 2nd signifier of the Nigeria Jubilee Fellows Programme (NJFP).

The NJFP, a flagship inaugural of the Federal Government being coordinated by the Office of the Vice-President, is implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and funded by the European Union (EU).

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the purpose of the inaugural is to link high-potential graduates with real-world enactment experience, training, and mentorship successful enactment with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

While inaugurating the Project Steering Committee of the NJFP 2.0 connected Monday successful Abuja, Vice-President Kashim Shettima urged the members to marque definite the programme was inclusive, ensuring that the accidental reaches each portion of the country.

Shettima stated that the extremity of the NJFP was to span the modulation spread betwixt learning and earning for thousands of young graduates with the required acquisition but nary occupation opportunity.

According to him, the programme represents “a deliberate effort to construe the nation’s demographic spot into productive economical power.”

The vice-president maintained that the NJFP was a Nigerian programme, shaped by nationalist priorities and the nation’s consciousness of purpose.

Shettima told members of the committee “to deepen that ownership, fortify coordination crossed our institutions, and guarantee that NJFP remains accountable to the ambitions of this administration.”

He besides implored the committee to enactment towards tangible outcomes and guarantee inclusivity.

”As we deliberate today, I promote america to deliberation not successful presumption of targets oregon figures alone, but successful presumption of outcomes that matter: young radical whose lives alteration due to the fact that this strategy works arsenic intended.

”We person an accidental present to show what concern done close tin achieve: wherever authorities leads with clarity, partners lend with confidence, and results talk for themselves.

”Therefore, fto america attack our enactment with that understanding. In scaling NJFP 2.0, inclusivity indispensable stay astatine the bosom of our design.

”Our young radical are not a homogenous group; they unrecorded successful antithetic realities crossed regions, genders, and societal backgrounds.

“We indispensable guarantee that this accidental reaches each country of the country—and that placements are tied to the sectors that volition signifier Nigeria’s future: agriculture, integer technology, renewable energy, manufacturing, and the originative industries,” Shettima added.

The European Union (EU) Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Mr Gautier Mignot, expressed assurance that the programme would alteration the lives of young Nigerians.

He said that the enactment of the Nigerian authorities would optimise the afloat mandate of the NJFP 2.0.

The UNDP Resident Representative, Elsie Attafuah, described the NJFP 2.0 arsenic a portion of a larger nationalist and continental imaginativeness which the UNDP is arrogant to support.

Attafuah said that the people was to enactment crossed Nigeria to physique an ecosystem that creates jobs.

She applauded Shettima for spearheading the initiative, saying what young Nigerians request are concern opportunities and an enabling ecosystem to marque usage of their skills and expertise. (NAN)

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