NDE calls for synergy to tackle unemployment
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has called for synergy among Nigerians to build business initiatives that would create jobs for the youth and boost the economy.
Speaking at the 38th Kaduna Trade Fair in Kaduna, the agency’s Acting Director-General, Mr Kunle Obanya, called for more collaboration between the private and public sectors to tackle the challenge of unemployment.
Obanya said the government could not effec.+tively shoulder the burden of employment creation, especially in the economic situation facing the nation.
He, therefore, called on all other stakeholders to support the directorate in resettling beneficiaries of its programmes and schemes who, due to paucity of funds, might not enjoy any start-ups from the NDE.
He said: “I urge all categories of the unemployed to embrace the great opportunities for self-reliance as presented in all states through the National Directorate of Employment. Let me equally re-affirm the commitment of the NDE to the continual provision of innovative employment creation models that will always compliment the micro economic policies of the Federal Government.
“In the NDE, collaboration towards employment creation is a model that we keep fine tuning in order to meet the ever changing dynamics of mass unemployment. I am glad to state here that our collaboration with other stakeholders in the employment sector is yielding the desired results and we remain committed to expanding the scope of our operations in this regard.’’
He recalled that in the last one year 12,457 unskilled and unemployed persons benefited from the various employment creation initiatives of the directorate.
