Nigeria: In Defence of Keyamo

opinion

What Nigeria's poor need is the ability to earn long-term incomes that come with the skills acquisition that will enable them to secure long term employment or make money from entrepreneurship. These are some of the reasons why the job programme and its politics are the problem, not Mr. Keyamo.

There is a sense in which the recruitment exercise to fill 774,000 jobs across the 774 local governments in Nigeria doesn't make sense. For the most part, it is not sincere: This is what led to the recent ugly display at the National Assembly where Mr. Festus Keyamo, the minister of state in the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, was accused of hijacking the programme by the Joint Committee of the National Assembly on Labour. Keyamo returned the accusation in kind and then offered the law makers 15 per cent of the job slots.

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