NDE recruits 15,000 persons

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National Directorate of Employment, NDE, has said it recruited and placed either in training or transient jobs, about 15,000 persons nationwide in the last four months.

The Director-General, DG, of NDE, Abubakar Mohammed, who disclosed this in Abuja at a senior management interactive forum of the directorate, also told the government to constantly review strategies and think outside the box to create jobs.

The NDE DG noted that the agency had started to test run the payment of N5,000 stipends promised to the unemployed in Delta State.

According to him, “this may appear insignificant in the face of the teeming unemployed, but it goes without saying that paucity of funds accounted for that. In the last eight years that I have been privileged to lead the NDE, we have introduced on a consistent basis, innovative interventions designed to tackle unemployment.”

“We have carefully complemented the micro economic policies of government through various programmes and schemes. I am confident that at this forum, we will be able to drive the policy thrust of the federal government in creating mass employment opportunities for Nigerians as well as fully support its aspiration to diversify the economy. That we need to strengthen and effectively promote the no-oil sectors of the economy such as sold minerals, agriculture, tourism and infrastructure is not only desirable but an idea that must be vigorously pursued.”

Source: Vanguard