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Sanwo-Olu begs Buhari for more slots as FG flags-off 774,000 jobs in Lagos
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By Olasunkanmi Akoni
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has urged the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration to increase the state allocation as it finally kicked off the 774,000 jobs, Extended Special Public Works, ESPW, programme in Lagos, aimed at providing employment opportunities for the unemployed Nigerians.
Sanwo-Olu, who made the call through his deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, yesterday, at the official flag-off of the programme, held at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium, Alausa-Ikeja, stated that the programme which is being implemented through the National Directorate of Employment, NDE, in collaboration with state governments and other relevant stakeholders, will create 774,000, jobs for Nigerians across all the local government areas out of which 20,000 will be
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Nigeria’s Foreign affairs minister, Geoffrey Onyeama has flagged-off the Federal Government’s Extended Special Public Works, SPW, programme, targeted at 774,000 youths across the country.
The job scheme, being engineered by the National Directorate of Employment [NDE] for unskilled, semi-skilled and unemployed graduates in every State of the federation, provides jobs for 1,000 youths per local government.
17,000 youths have been selected to benefit from the scheme in Enugu State.
Speaking at the Michael Okpara Square venue of the event, Onyeama, who stood in for President Muhammadu Buhari, disclosed that the exercise is part of the measures devised by the present administration to lift many Nigerians, especially the vulnerable out of poverty.
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Nigeria’s Foreign affairs minister, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama has flagged-off the Federal Government’s Extended Special Public Works, SPW, programme, targeted at 774,000 youths across the country.
The job scheme, being engineered by the National Directorate of Employment [NDE] for unskilled, semi-skilled and unemployed graduates in every State of the federation, provides jobs for 1,000 youths per local government.
17,000 youths have been selected to benefit from the scheme in Enugu State.
Speaking at the Michael Okpara Square venue of the event, Onyeama, who stood in for President Muhammadu Buhari, disclosed that the exercise is part of the measures devised by the present administration to lift many Nigerians, especially the vulnerable out of poverty.
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