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From Wole Balogun, Ado Ekiti
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has lamented the mass unemployment challenge currently facing the country, describing it as a time bomb to which the government must pay an urgent attention.
He made the remarks yesterday while hosting the 8,412,000 beneficiaries of the Federal Government N-Power scheme in the state and charged them to deliver great service to Nigeria and, particularly, Ekiti.
The governor also donated 300 laptops to them. Singling out an outstanding graduate of English from Obafemi Awolowo University, 25-year-old Fajana Olabisi Motinoluwa from Ekiti East Local Area of the state, who had also won gold medal for the state in Essay competition, the governor promised her a scholarship for Masters degree programme and a government job after completion.
Fayose, who also promised to foot the N4 million treatment bill of a kid with hole in the heart that he spotted at the meeting, said he was using the gesture to encourage the beneficiaries in their task to develop the nation.
He urged them to take advantage of the N-Power scheme to develop Ekiti and themselves. Fayose instructed the beneficiaries to make available copies of their curriculum vitae to government as soon as possible, and also promised them that they would constitute majority of those that would be employed in a forthcoming employment exercise of about 2,000 graduates into the state civil service.
