We will stem the tides of unemployment – Ngige

Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Nwabueze Chris Ngige has said that his ministry will be at the fore front of the battle against the menace of unemployment in Nigeria. The Minister stated this in Abuja while addressing management and staff of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment on his assumption of duty. In […]

Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Nwabueze Chris Ngige has said that his ministry will be at the fore front of the battle against the menace of unemployment in Nigeria.
The Minister stated this in Abuja while addressing management and staff of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment on his assumption of duty.
In his words,  “We will be at the forefront of the battle to stop the scourge of unemployment in the country. We must as a people put on our thinking caps so that we can chart the way forward for employment generation.”
He however said that government alone cannot provide everybody with employment, assuring  that the ministry will be part of the engineering that will pave ways for the private sector to generate jobs through developmental focused labour laws among others. 
“We will ensure zero tolerance for leakages and corrupt practices in the country.  We are the catalyst, the change agents of the change era; if we block leakages in our systems the country will be better for it as resources will be made available for economic growth of the nation,”  he said.
In his remarks, the Minister of State, Barr. James Ocholi, expressed confidence in the expertise of management and staff of the ministry which he believes is in line with the change mantra of the present administration.
Speaking, the Permanent Secretary, Dr. Clement Illoh assured the ministers of the full cooperation of the management and staff of the ministry including its agencies toward actualisation of their mandates.