ANIOMA GROUP RAISES CONCERN OVER INCREASING UNEMPLOYMENT RATE

Worried by the rising unemployment rate in the country, particularly among youths, a group, Anioma People’s Development Think Tank (APADETT), has raised concern with the situation it described as “no hope on sight”, saying that it is a “time bomb” waiting to explode soon.

Noting that unless proactive steps are taken to arrest the situation, the group however asked the state and federal governments, public, private institutions to rise up to the challenges and ensure the  situation is reduced to bearest minimum.

President of the group, Barr. Ikeazor Akaraiwe who spoke to journalists in Asaba on Tuesday, posited that unemployment frightens and portends “monster” which need to be crushed.

While saying that government alone cannot tackle the increasing unemployment indices across the country, particularly Delta State, Barr. Akaraiwe called on prominent Anioma sons and daughters to begin to redirect their attention back home, adding: “the time to act is now, if we fail to deal with the challenge, we have on hard which is unemployment, very soon, it will begin to deal with us”.

Meanwhile, Delta State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Patrick Ukah has said that whereas the framework of policies are determined by politicians and the integral part of policy implementation with execution within the civil service.

Ukah told journalists in Asaba at the send forth party organised for his Ministry’s  permanent secretary, Mr. Jude Aguoye, that civil service remain government tool for policy implementation as it determines its performances in most cases. While commanding the scribe for adding values to the Information Ministry, the Commissioner disclosed that efforts were being put in place to make Information Officers as first among equals in the state.

In another development, Igbo Social Cultural Group in Ika Nation in Delta State, is to establish a summer school to be known as Ika Academy.

The group is worried by the predictions credited to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) barely five years ago that some 6, 000 local languages would go into extinction in the next 50 years except something drastic is done to save those languages.

Mr. Ndidi Efan, president of the group said that the school which would kick off this year 2017, would set to bridge the gap and ensure Ika language and culture does not fizzle out. His words: “when fully established, it will not only boost the job creation vision of the current state government, but it will encourage the speaking and learning of Ika language as transmission”