Kogi communityThe Special Public Works Programme is part of conscious strategies by the Federal Government to address the rising unemployment and insecurity in some parts of the country.
While kicking off the programme in Birnin-Kebbi at the weekend, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, maintained that the employment opportunity to 774,00 Nigerians as part of strategies to fast-track the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) 2017 to 2020. x
The Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Office of the AGF, made this known to The Guardian.
Malami said the objective was to facilitate the creation of productive and inclusive societies in the country and shield the most vulnerable from passive hunger, poverty, environmental degradation and joblessness.
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Just like in the case of Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim who was appointed the Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) despite her employment breaching the extant laws, President Muhammadu Buhari has also approved the appointment of Abubakar Fikpo as the acting DG of the National Directorate of Employment, NDE, pending the appointment of a substantive DG, contrary to the position of the Senate.
The Senate had on December 10, 2020, urged Buhari to rescind the presidential directive sacking Dr. Nasiru Argungu, as the NDE DG.
In sacking Argungu last year in the wake of the controversy that trailed the Federal Government’s planned 774,000 jobs, Buhari had directed the Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, who supervises the agency to nominate an acting DG for the agency.
Buhari appoints acting head of NDE
Prior to his appointment, Mr Fikpo was the zonal director at the NDE North-west zonal office.
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This was disclosed by the president’s spokesperson, Garba Shehu, on his official twitter page, Monday.
President Muhammadu Buhari has formally conveyed to the Hon. Minister of State, Labour and Employment, @fkeyamo, SAN, his approval of the nomination of Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo as the Acting Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment..
Mr Shehu said: ”President Muhammadu Buhari has formally conveyed to the Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, his approval of the nomination of Abubakar Fikpo, as the acting director-general of the National Directorate of Employment, pending the appointment of a substantive director-general for the agency.”