NDE tasks Nigerians on local business initiatives

The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has urged Nigerians to encourage the growth of local business initiatives in a quest to boost the economy as well as create jobs for the youths.

Speaking at the 38th edition of the Kaduna trade fair in Kaduna, acting Director General of the NDE, Mr Kunle Obanya also called for more collaborative efforts between the private and public sectors to tackle the challenge of unemployment.

Obanya said alone cannot shoulder the employment government effectively burden of creation especially under the current 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 may not enjoy any form of start-up 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 of the federation 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 a total of 12,457 unskilled and unemployed persons have benefitted from the various employment creation initiatives of the directorate.