WorldStage Newsonline-- The Federal Government of Nigeria has clarified the modality for payment of N5,000 to each of unemployed Nigerian youths as promised during the electioneering campaign for votes by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that produced the current administration, saying only vulnerable Nigerian youths will be paid.
Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige who made the clarification on Tuesday at the 5th Anniversary Celebration of Bina Foundation and Graduation Ceremony of the Foundation’s Skill Acquisition Students in Enugu, said contrary to the erroneous belief that the N5000 is meant for all youths, only the vulnerable ones amongst them would benefit.
“You can see that employment creation is the main issue. We have heard people say we are waiting for N5000. We did not say we are paying N5000 to all the youth. We are saying it is for the most vulnerable,” he said.
He assured that the Federal Government would fight poverty in 2016 by giving aid to people with special needs, market women and children through the school feeding programme.
He said, “The APC government anchored delivery on three pillars-securities of lives and property, improving economy under which employment creation is the third subhead and infrastructure revival
“For the social safety needs, we have budgeted N500 billion for the next fiscal year. We have captured unemployed graduates. We are doing two things. We get those who read law, engineering and other disciplines but do not have jobs, train them for nine months and convert them to teachers.
“Most of our schools have half baked teachers. We want to redefine our schools and make them what they are. We are also building skill acquisition centres. We have 12 of them across the country. The era of white collar industry is gone. Nobody in Nigeria will be unemployed. People will learn how to use their hands.”
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