FG Targets Unemployment With Massive Public Works

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15 December 2010

At last! Now, a special focus is needed on the Niger Delta

FG Targets Unemployment With Massive Public Works

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday presented his first budget to a joint session of the National Assembly with the stated objective of massive job creation to be kick-started with seed funding of N50 billion.

According to the president, the administration would initiate a new National Job Creation Scheme with multifaceted interventions, "adopting short and medium-term strategies to create thousands of new jobs in our urban and rural communities".

He said to immediately impact unemployment, a Public Works Programme would commence across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

"This programme will involve the engagement of private sector contractors to implement simple, labour-intensive public works in areas such as the renovation and maintenance of buildings such as schools, hospitals and primary healthcare centres; roads rehabilitation and maintenance works; urban sanitation and solid waste disposal; erosion control; and community works projects," he told the federal lawmakers.