Chris Ngige
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has called on unemployed Nigerians to register at the online job portal of the Social Intervention Scheme of the Federal Government.
Ngige’s call is contained in a statement issued by Samuel Olowookere, the Deputy Director, Press in the ministry on Sunday in Abuja.
The minister made the call over the weekend, while inaugurating the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) School-to-Work Programme in Calabar.
“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.
Ngige, however, said that the School-To-Work programme was a renewed vigour by the ministry to catch them young.
The minister said it was also a bold attempt to build a future Nigeria where white-collar jobs would be unattractive.
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