Govt Targets 20,000 Jobs Annually From Jubilee Fellows’ Programme

The Federal Government of Nigeria plans to make 20,000 jobs annually done the motorboat of the 2nd signifier of the Nigeria Jubilee Fellows Programme (NJFP), aimed astatine connecting high-potential graduates with real-world enactment experience, grooming and mentorship.

To spearhead the inaugural successful enactment with President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, Vice President Kashim Shettima, volition time successful Abuja, emblem disconnected the Nigeria Jubilee Fellows Programme (NJFP) 2.0.

He volition besides unfastened a High-Level Policy Dialogue connected Job Creation with the theme, “From Skills to Jobs and Enterprises: Driving Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship successful Key Economic Sectors.”

Ahead of the flag-off, the Vice President yesterday inaugurated the Project Steering Committee of the NJFP 2.0, with a complaint to members to marque definite the programme is inclusive, ensuring that the accidental reaches each portion of the country.

The NJFP, a flagship inaugural of the national authorities 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).

Launched successful 2022 to span the spread betwixt skills, jobs, and enterprise, the programme has already empowered implicit 14,000 young Nigerians done the 12-month paid fellowships that physique experience, confidence, and lasting vocation opportunities.

In a connection issued yesterday by his spokesman, Stanley Nkwocha, Shettima told the committee that the extremity of the NJFP is to span the modulation spread betwixt learning and earning for thousands of young graduates with the required acquisition but nary occupation opportunity.

The programme, helium added, represents “a deliberate effort to construe the nation’s demographic spot into productive economical power, demonstrating that erstwhile authorities provides structure, partnership, and purpose, young Nigerians emergence to the occasion.”

Maintaining that the NJFP is simply a Nigerian programme, shaped by nationalist priorities and the nation’s consciousness of purpose, the VP 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.”

Imploring the committee to enactment towards tangible outcomes and guarantee inclusivity, VP Shettima said, “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 state — and that placements are tied to the sectors that volition signifier Nigeria’s future: agriculture, integer technology, renewable energy, manufacturing, and the originative industries.”

On his part, European Union (EU) Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Mr. Gautier Mignot, expressed assurance that the programme would alteration the lives of young Nigerians, saying the enactment of the Nigerian authorities volition optimise the afloat mandate of the NJFP 2.0.

Also, the UNDP nonmigratory 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, noting that the people is to enactment crossed Nigeria to physique an ecosystem that creates jobs.

She applauded Vice President Shettima for spearheading the initiative, saying what young Nigerians request is concern opportunities and an enabling ecosystem to marque usage of their skills and expertise.

Earlier, lawman main of unit to the President, Senator Ibrahim Hassan Hadejia, said pursuing the flag-off of the NJFP 2.0 connected Wednesday, “the Vice President volition besides state unfastened the High-Level Policy Dialogue connected Job Creation, themed: “From Skills to Jobs and Enterprises: Driving Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship successful Key Economic Sectors.”