Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has said that the statistics reeled out by the former governor of Anambra State and the Vice – Presidential candidate of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the February presidential elections, Peter Obi, during the vice presidential candidates’ debate last week in Abuja to the effect that the unemployment rate in the country rose from 24 percent in 2015 to 40 percent presently, was wrong.
Ngige, who spoke on Monday in Awka, at the opening ceremony of the training on cosmetology for 1,500 unemployed Anambra people organized by the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) and sponsored by his ministry, said that Obi fed Nigerians with lies.
According to him, the unemployment rate had reduced since 2015 because of the various intervention programmes put in place by the Muhammadu Buhari administration, which made it a point of duty that unemployment must be reduced drastically.
He mentioned the N-Power programme, which he said, had engaged thousands of unemployed graduates and the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) coordinated training programmes on blue collar jobs, which had trained and supported many unemployed Nigerians to be self-reliant as some of the interventions. Read more