FG Recruiting 500,000 People For Immediate Employment – Lai Mohammed

The Federal Government has began shortlisting candidates to fill the 500,000 jobs vacancies it promised, as a means of reducing unemployment.

Lai Mohammed The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this yesterday, in Abuja when a delegation of the National Council for Women’s Societies (NCWS) paid him a courtesy visit.

Mohammed said that government had started working on the list of candidates across the federation.

“The process for the recruitment has started. About 1.2 million people applied and they classified them into categories including agriculture support officers, teachers, technical officers and so on,’’ he said.

He said the Minister of Finance, Dr Kemi Adeosun had earlier announced this. Mohammed reiterated the commitment of the government to improving the well-being and standard of living of the citizens.

“We are very concerned about the welfare of Nigerians and we are not sleeping; we are working day and night to ensure that the country retraces its step.

“Many of our critics have been unfair to us because many of them know that we did not invent the problems we are facing today.

“ This is time to join hands together to support the government to move the nation forward,’’ he said.