FG To Establish National Job Centres For Youth Employment

The national authorities has announced plans to found a nationwide web of nationalist occupation centres arsenic portion of efforts to link skilled Nigerians to decent and sustainable employment opportunities.

Minister of authorities for labour and employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, disclosed during the Mastercard Foundation Annual Nigeria Partner Convening wherever she reaffirmed the government’s committedness to dignified, inclusive and transformative enactment nether President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

She said the projected National Job Centre Project would service arsenic a coordinated model to nexus jobseekers with employers portion supporting skills improvement and labour marketplace information collection.

According to a connection issued by the minister’s peculiar adviser, media and communications, Tosin Oluwalowo, the centres volition relation arsenic employability hubs that integrate integer job-matching systems, vocation advisory services and labour marketplace analytics to fortify Nigeria’s workforce structure.

The curate noted that the inaugural aims to trim the spread betwixt skills and opportunities portion positioning Nigerian younker to vie globally and lend productively to section industries.

“The National Job Centres volition integrate integer occupation matching, information tracking, and vocation advisory services to make a harmonised and inclusive system.

They signifier portion of a nationalist labour model that empowers younker to lend meaningfully to section industries and vie confidently connected the planetary stage,” she said.

The curate besides unveiled the Labour Employment and Empowerment Programme (LEEP), a flagship strategy that seeks to heighten younker employability and guarantee a creaseless modulation from grooming to productive work.

“Through LEEP, we are enhancing the employability of young Nigerians and strengthening the span betwixt grooming and jobs. Our extremity is not conscionable to make employment but to physique systems that support workers’ rights, guarantee just wages, and fortify labour marketplace governance,” she stated.

Onyejeocha commended the Mastercard Foundation for its continued collaboration with the national authorities done its Young Africa Works strategy, which has created employment pathways and supported entrepreneurship initiatives crossed the country.

The curate stressed that addressing unemployment and achieving decent enactment for each volition necessitate associated efforts from authorities institutions, backstage assemblage players, improvement partners, and civilian nine organisations.

“Building an inclusive and sustainable ecosystem for enactment requires corporate effort. We invitation partners to collaborate with america successful driving occupation entree done these platforms and accelerating economical outcomes crossed Nigeria’s labour ecosystem,” she added.