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Nigerian President Approves Take-off of 774,000 Jobs on Tuesday

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the take-off of the Special Public Works Programme, which aims at engaging 774,000 unemployed itinerant Nigerians to begin nationwide on Tuesday, January 5th.

The country’s minister of state for labour Festus Keyamo stated this on his verified Twitter handle.

“President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the take-off of the Special Public Works Programme (engaging 774,000 unemployed itinerant Nigerians) to begin nationwide on Tuesday, January 5th, 2021,” he tweeted.

“All NDE state structures are already in top gear for the take-off ceremonies.”

The programme was earlier slated to kick off on October 1, but Keyamo had said the president approved the postponement of the scheme owing to floods in some of the project sites.

“President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the request of the Minister of State, Labour and Employment, to reschedule the commencement date of the Special Public Works Programme from the 1st of October to the 1st of November, 2020,” he had said.

“The approval is based principally on the Minister’s Memo to Mr President informing him that most of the proposed project sites are still waterlogged and the rains have not abated, whereas the programme is designed for execution during the dry season.

“It is believed that by the 1st of November most of the project sites would be ready for work.”

The proposed recruitment had also caused major friction between members of the national assembly and Keyamo. While federal lawmakers had accused Keyamo of hijacking the programme from the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), the minister alleged the legislators were attempting to hijack the project.

Consequently, the national assembly suspended the programme in the heat of its face-off with the minister, demanding further explanations, but the president overruled the National Assembly, directing Keyamo to go ahead with the execution of the programme.

The programme will ensure 1,000 people from each of the 774 local government areas in the country are employed and will be coordinated by constituted state committees, with the beneficiaries earning N20,000 monthly.

By Abel Ejikeme

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