Tag: Unemployment

NOA Task South-East Governors on Building Institutions to eliminate Poverty, Unemployment

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Obiorah Anthony The five Governors of the South-East geo-political zone of Nigeria have been advised to work towards building functional institutions for the total elimination of poverty, unemployment and hardship that have bedeviled the people of the zone over the years. Barrister Charles Nwoji, Anambra State Director of National Orientation Agency (NOA) made the call at the second edition of the induction and orientation programme organized in Awka by the Mmaigbo Empowerment Foundation on Skills Acquisition and Exhibition for its new beneficiaries in the State and beyond. The NOA boss…

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FMC Hong to reduce unemployment rate by over 3000, says lawmaker

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Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs in the House of Representatives, Rt.Hon. ( Dr.) Yusuf Buba, has said that the establishment of a new Federal Medical Centre in Hong, Adamawa State, will provide over 3000 direct jobs to the teeming unemployed youths in the country. Buba, a member representing Gombi /Hong Federal Constituency, stated this on Thursday in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Nkem Anyata-Lafia, in Abuja. The lawmaker said other opportunities that would emanate from the facility include the enormous multiplier effects of jobs…

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Experts proffer solutions to youth unemployment in Nigeria

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Participants at a zoom meeting organised by the Nigeria Diaspora Network (NDN), UK Chapter, have enumerated ways the youth unemployment in the country could be tackled. The meeting, with a title: “Youth Unemployment in Nigeria,” was monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Thursday night in Abuja. Speaking, Mr Abayomi Adebayo, founder and director, Drift Advancement Centre in Ibadan, Oyo State, urged the private investors to collaborate with education providers to help the youths develop the skills that could make them to be self-reliant. He also called on them…

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