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40 Million Nigerians Are Jobless - SURE-P
Dr. Christopher Kolade
According to him, the federal government was not comfortable with the high unemployment rate and was doing everything possible to reverse it.
Speaking during a sensitisation and mobilisation programme organised by the Graduate Internship Scheme (GIS) in Ado - Ekiti, Ekiti State, Kolade disclosed President Goodluck Jonathan was committed to solving the employment problem through the SURE-P.
Represented by the Technical Assistant to Community Services, Women and Youth Employment (CSWYE), Emeka Ekpunebi, Kolade noted that through the GIS, Jonathan was making all efforts to ensure employment problem, which had grown for years was addressed drastically.
"Through the GIS, we have the mandate to create 50,000 jobs. This sensitisation workshop is therefore very important to us because it is part of our commitment to ensure that the GIS achieve the objectives for which it was set up," he said.
According to him, the president had demonstrated his commitment to tackling the challenge of youth employment by providing the necessary platform and funds.
The programme, which was organised by the GIS in collaboration with Kalends Consulting was aimed at making most Nigerian graduates more employable through training and mentoring.
The Project Director of the GIS, Mr. Peter Parka said: "The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in 2011 indicated that 23.9 per cent of Nigerians are unemployed. This means that about 40 million Nigerians need employment.
He noted one of the "challenges of graduate unemployment is inability of the system to absorb the nearly 300,000 graduates churned out by our universities and other tertiary institutions each year."
The Chairman of the SURE-P in Ekiti state, Mr. Femi Akinyemi, disclosed about N120 million had been released by the federal government to address unemployment problem in the state.
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