The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr. James Ocholi,
SAN yesterday said that there is no reliable statistics on unemployed
youths in the country.
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| Mr. James Ocholi, SAN |
The minister stated this at the All Progressives Congress, APC
national headquarters in Abuja where he fielded questions from
journalists on how the ministry is carrying out its mandate of job
creation so far.
He also spoke on the federal government’s plans to employ non-trained
teacher graduates as teachers, for which President Muhammadu Buhari
spoke on during his budget presentation at the National Assembly.
The APC government had during the electioneering campaigns promised
to pay N5, 000 stipend per month to indigent Nigerians and to create
employment.
According to Ocholi, the Teacher Conversion Programme is meant to mop
up graduates who do not have employment but possess degrees in relevant
areas that can be used to teach secondary school students.
The minister who decried lack of data of unemployed youths said, “Before we got to where we are, there was no data anywhere.
