TODAY
January 12, 2021
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday said beneficiaries of the 774,000 extended Public Work Programme of the federal government will become self-employed and employers of labour after period of three months the programme will last.
He stated this in Abakaliki, Ebonyi state capital during the flag-off of the programme for the state with the state National Directorate of Employment (NDE) as the supervisory agency.
Buhari who was represented by Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, called on private sector to show interest in employing the participants after they have acquired additional knowledge and skills in the process of implementing the programme.
By Adedayo Akinwale
The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Zubairu Dada, Tuesday inaugurated the Extended Special Works Programme aimed at engaging 7,074 youths across the federation.
Declaring the official commencement of the programme on behalf of the federal government in Minna, Niger State, Dada said the special extended works was the outcome of the pilot Special Public Works Programmes in the rural areas approved by President Muhammadu Buhari and implemented by the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in eight states.
The minister, in a statement issued Tuesday by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Ibrahim Aliyu, said with the outbreak of novel Covid-19 pandemic, the president directed the Economic Sustainability Committee under the Chairmanship of the Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to craft economic measures to cushion the adverse effects of Covid-19, hence the extension of the public works programmes to cover all the 774 local government areas of the federat
Oba Darasimi
Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, came under intense attacks from Nigerians after photographs of him distributing cutlasses and wheelbarrows to youths in Delta State during the launch of the 774,000 jobs in the state last week emerged on social media.
The federal government commenced the distribution of wheelbarrows, head pans and other equipment to unemployed youths as the Expanded Special Public Works Programme of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration commenced last week Tuesday.
Festus Keyamo officially flagged off the Special Public Works Programme, the 774,000 jobs for the South-South Geopolitical zone at the Federal Secretariat Complex, Asaba, capital of Delta State and the pictures of him delivering the equipment which went viral Monday sparked off public outrage.
By Douglas Okoro
Abakaliki, Jan. 11, 2021 The Federal Government on Monday in Abakaliki inaugurated the Extended Special Public Works Programme (ESPWP), in Ebonyi.
Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, the Minister of Science and Technology during the inauguration in Abakaliki, said that the programme was part of strategies by President Muhammadu Buhari to reduce hardship among the youth.
He said that under the programme, participants would help to maintain public works owned by the Federal, state and local governments.
According to the minister, no fewer than 13, 000 participants selected from across the 13 local government areas of the state will take part in the programme.
Onu said that the programme would run for a period of three months.