The federal authorities lately introduced its plan to recruit 3,500 lecturers for Unity Faculties; enhancing training requirements throughout Nigeria.
The Ministry of Training is working with the Workplace of the Head of Service, the Federal Civil Service Fee, and different authorities our bodies to facilitate the recruitment of recent instructing workers, in accordance with a submit on X.
The Minister of State for Training, Dr. Yusuf Sununu made the announcement throughout the Nationwide Stakeholders’ Discussion board on Senior Secondary Training, a two-day occasion held to debate training insurance policies and reforms in Nigeria.
What he mentioned
Sununu supplied additional particulars on this new growth.
“I guarantee you that the Ministry is collaborating with the Workplace of the Head of Service, the Federal Civil Service Fee, and different related authorities organs to recruit 3,500 instructing workers for our federal authorities faculties nationwide.
“The aim is to enhance the academic requirements in Federal Unity Faculties”, he mentioned.
Along with the recruitment, Dr. Sununu famous that the Ministry has organized for intensive coaching and retraining packages for varsity workers. He additional acknowledged that this can improve the standard of training, and make sure that the brand new lecturers and current workers are well-prepared to fulfill the wants of scholars.
Decreasing unemployment in Nigeria: In keeping with the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mrs Nkeiruka Onyejeocha.‘In Nigeria, youth unemployment stays a urgent concern, with over 13 million younger folks at the moment unemployed,’
Backstory
Additionally, as Nairametrics earlier reported for the third quarter of 2023, the unemployment fee surged to five.0%, marking a notable enhance from the 4.2% recorded in Q2 2023.
Amongst males, the unemployment fee stood at 4.0%, whereas amongst ladies, it was 6.0%.
The World {Bank} additionally reported that unemployment happens in Nigeria as a consequence of an absence of entry to finance and infrastructure retains companies small, constraining their development and—with that—additionally their potential to create increased expertise jobs by specialization.
Nevertheless, as of April this yr, the Federal authorities commenced the implementation of methods in direction of the creation of jobs and lifting folks out of utmost poverty with the bodily distribution of working instruments to quite a few beneficiaries throughout the nation.
This was aimed toward increasing employment alternatives encouraging significant participation in wealth technology actions and proposing efficient measures for job creation and poverty alleviation by selling the event of MSMEs.
In the same vein, the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mrs Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, mentioned that the federal authorities deliberate to create 2.5 million jobs by the Labour Employment Enhancement Programme (LEEP).
She famous that the LEEP aimed for zero starvation, zero poverty, {economic} development, and respectable jobs by six strategic initiatives.
