The
Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige has revealed that
the Federal Government will design a new approach that will tackle the
massive youth unemployment in the country and assist in moving the
economy forward for the benefit of the people.
Ngige, who made
this known in Umuahia when he paid a courtesy visit to the Abia State
governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, assured that the government would depart
from the old ways of tackling the perennial problem of youth
unemployment, as his ministry will give attention to skill acquisition
to enable people to be self employed as against being job seekers.
The
Minister, who was in the state to commission an ICT skill acquisition
centre completed by the National Directorate of Employment, NDE, at
Ugwunagbo Local Government Area, LGA, explained that the directorate was
committed to combating unemployment in addition to formulating policies
on employment.
He revealed that the NDE would keep a database of
employed, unemployed, employable, under-employed and gainfully employed
youths of the country for easy assessment.
“Government cannot
give employment to everybody, but we can teach people how to employ
themselves. The NDE established the skills acquisition centers where
people are trained on how to do things with their hands and earn a
living for themselves,” Ngige said.
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