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From Adanna Nnamani, Abuja
The Federal Government has said plans to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty by the year 2030 is still very much valid and attainable.
It also said concrete steps are being taken, especially with the new National Development Plan 2021 to 2025 to ensure that the aim is achieved.
Permanent Secretary Ministry of Labour and Employment, Kachallom Daju disclosed this during a media parley with journalists recently in Abuja.
According to her, the process is multi-sectoral and involves more than just the Ministry, adding that the various sectors will work together to guarantee that the goal is met.
“And it’s not just federal government.
The private sector is supposed to play a huge role because we cannot all be dependent on government.
The private sector has its own role to play.
So, we will work together and for the Ministry of Labour, we have different agencies and departments that have to do with employment, skills acquisition, as you all know and recently, the labour market information system, which we’re bringing out for the citizens to know, is to ensure that data is collected.
Alongside that, we are actually going to improve on job matching. We have the National Electronic Labour Exchange (NELEX) which has been on but now we are going to improve it. It is where you match jobseekers with the job.
It has been going on but apparently many Nigerians are not aware of it. So, the ministry is upgrading that and ensuring that hopefully, I do not want to give a date but I know that we are improving more and actually constructing more job centers across the nation.”
Daju added that there are plans to enhance the number of job centers in the country in order to serve all 774 local government areas.
“We want more job centres created in the 744 Local Government Areas and the states.That is how the government equally want to help.
“The National Directorate of Employment was actually brought to ensure that the informal sector is well taken care of and that is the problem for the government.
“A large per cent of people are in the informal sector are not insured but with the National Health Insurance Act which was just passed, the insurance has to go to the informal sector too now and it all part of what the government is doing.
“It will equally help the artisans who have not been able to take care of themselves or their families when they are ill to go to the hospitals and being taken care of.
