The Federal Government has said participants of the 774,000 jobs will undergo a Basic Business Training (BBT) to expose them to the rudiments of identifying and running micro and small enterprises (MSEs).
The government announced this on Wednesday in Abuja in a statement by the Deputy Director of Information and Public Relations at the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Edmund Onwuliri.
The statement said the training is part of government’s exit strategy for participants of the programme.
It explained that the training is scheduled to hold at a central venue in each of the states’ three senatorial districts across the country and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The statement said participants will acquire relevant skills to enable them identify and manage SMEs of their own, after they exit the Extended Special Public Works (ESPW) programme.
It added: “While engaged in the three-month programme, participants were actively engaged in activities within the Public Works sector where they provided services, such as environmental sanitation services in public places, drainage clearing and de-silting, vegetation control, road traffic management and other community-based and environment-specific public works services.
“While providing such services, participants were paid a stipend of N20,000.00 per month for the three months the programme was designed to last. One thousand unskilled persons were recruited from each of the 774 local government areas of the nation. It is expected that the training will further enhance the capacity of the participants to migrate from the transient job phase to a sustainable and self-reliant statues, thereby reducing mass unemployment among the unskilled and unemployed across the country.”
The Special Public Works (SPW) programme is Federal Government’s ad hoc arrangement to provide a stop-gap three-month jobs to mainly artisans that will enable each of them to earn N20,000 monthly doing public works.
One thousand youths were hired from each of the 774 local government areas in the country as beneficiaries, bringing the figure to 774,000.
The programme was kick-started in January 2021 by the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo.
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Finally they have remembered unemployed people. Thank God.