What Nigerian Unemployed Youth Must Do Socially To Gain Employment

Minister of Labor and Employment, Chris Ngige, has said that
for any unemployed Nigerian to benefit from any of the
social intervention scheme (SIS) of the government, they
must register online as registration is now mandatory for
job seekers and other empowerment programmes. Ngige
stated this while flagging off the National Directorate of
Employment (NDE) School-to-Work Programme in Calabar,
Cross River State over the weekend.
He said this against the backdrop of different agencies of
government laying claim to the ownership of the
programmes.
“You must register to benefit from the Social
Intervention Scheme. Unfortunately, as we speak, by
last week, the portal has only recorded about 1.2
million persons. We expect more persons to have
been registered in the portal before our screening
exercise; the registration on the portal is
Npower.ng.org.
The portal closes Aug. 31, which is just few days
away. For those who are not computer literate, we
advise state governments to encourage them by
using local government chairmen to move into local
government areas to register the unemployed
persons there. So that they can qualify to be
considered for the scheme. Each state of the
federation is expected to recruit about 1, 500
persons’’ he said