{"id":26915,"date":"2020-06-29T19:01:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T18:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=26915"},"modified":"2020-06-29T19:01:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T18:01:17","slug":"fg-kicks-774000-jobs-n20k-per-month-for-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=26915","title":{"rendered":"FG kicks 774,000 jobs @ N20k per month for three months"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Joan Nwagwu\u00a0<\/strong>(NAN)
\nThe Federal Government says it will recruit 1,000 itinerant, unskilled workers in each of\u00a0 the 774 Local Government Areas (LGA), in the country from October to December for roads rehabilitation, construction, sanitation, among others.
\nMr Festus Keyamo, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, said this during the inauguration of the States\u2019 Selection Committees for the Extended Special Public Works Programme on Monday in Abuja.
\nKeyamo said that the programme was approved by President Muhammadu Buhari and aimed principally at recruiting 774,000 itinerant and unskilled Nigerians.
\nAccording to him, the 1,000 persons that the committee will recruit per LGA will be engaged by the Federal Government between October and December this year.
\n\u201cThis is for the workers to carry out public works that are peculiar to each Local Government Area.
\n\u201cThey would be paid a total of N60,000 each, that is, N20, 000 per month.
\n\u201cThey would be engaged in roads rehabilitation and social housing construction, urban and rural sanitation, health extension and other critical services.
\n\u201cDepending on how successful the programme is or how buoyant the Federal Government\u2019s purse is, this programme may either be extended or repeated every year.
\n\u201cThere are also various suggestions on some exit strategies for this programme, one of which is to move these workers to some agriculture projects, but nothing is concrete yet,\u2019\u2019 he said.
\nThe minister, therefore, charged members of the committees to ensure that the task was taken seriously and with patriotism.
\nKeyamo added that the programme could rightly be described as one of President Buhari\u2019s many star programmes for the lowly, weak and vulnerable people in the society.
\n\u201cWe are already running out of time on the execution of this programme. This is because a lot have to be done before the various works begin in October.
\n\u201cAfter the selection of those to be engaged, they still have to be captured by some selected banks,\u2019\u2019 he said.
\nThe minister noted that the government was discussing with some banks for the capturing to enable the workers to have their Bank Verification Numbers (BVNs).
\n\u201cThis is because Mr President has directed that everyone must be paid through their BVNs to eliminate fraud in the programme. With this measure, no single person can be paid twice,\u2019\u2019 he explained.
\nHe, therefore, directed all States\u2019 Selection Committees to within three weeks complete the selection processes and return names of those selected for further processing by the banks.
\n\u201cWe are hereby releasing immediately all names and phone numbers of every member of the various committees in the entire country for easy access by Nigerians to make case for their inclusion.
\n\u201cMembers of the committee, in turn will also reach out to various sectors of their different states to recruit eligible Nigerians.
\n\u201cThe finer details of how these would be done will be communicate to the committees through their various Chairmen and Secretaries.
\n\u201cThese would be ready in the next few days in the form of guidelines for the Operation of the States\u2019 Selection Committees,\u2019\u2019 he said.
\nThe minister also directed that all meetings by the committees should be done in the various states\u2019 offices of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), or at neutral venues to avoid undue influence.
\nKeyamo urged the committees to adhere to the guidelines given to them as they were bound to achieve the targets set by the President to reach 774,000 Nigerians who are largely indigent workers.
\nHe, however, added that the Federal Government would not hesitate to replace any committee member who failed to adhere strictly to the guidelines given or whose actions were not in line with the programmes objectives.
\nMr Afolabi Joseph, who responded on behalf of the committees, commended President Buhari for the opportunity given to them to serve on the laudable initiative.
\n\u201cWe believe that it is an opportunity to impact the lives of a lot of Nigerians and we believe the programme will be successful with our support.
\n\u201cWe will also ensure that all guidelines that will be released soon will be followed accordingly, for us to deliver in line with the expectations of the minister,\u2019\u2019 he said.
\nThe News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), recalls that an Inter-Ministerial Committee on the Extended Special Public Works Programme, headed by the Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), was inaugurated on April 29.
\nThe Inter-Ministerial Committee, drawn from eight ministries, was to recommend on ways and means of executing the programme.
\nIt was from the recommendations of the inter-ministerial committee that the States\u2019 Selection Committees emerged.
\nThe States\u2019 Selection Committees was saddled with the responsibility of identifying the public works to be executed in each LGA in the states and also to identify and recruit those to be engaged under the programme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Joan Nwagwu\u00a0(NAN) The Federal Government says it will recruit 1,000 itinerant, unskilled workers in each of\u00a0 the 774 Local Government Areas (LGA), in the country from October to December for roads rehabilitation, construction, sanitation, among others. Mr Festus Keyamo, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, said this during the inauguration of the States\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[1775,1776,1777],"class_list":["post-26915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","category-news","tag-774k","tag-jobs","tag-n20k"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}