Vice President Kashim Shettima has launched the Labour Employment and Empowerment Programme (LEEP), an initiative aimed toward creating 2.5 million jobs throughout varied sectors.
Anchored on six pillars of employment alternatives, LEEP which was developed by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment is designed to deal with youth unemployment and place Nigeria as a aggressive power within the international digital economic system.
The Vice President on the launch in Abuja on Tuesday, described the initiative as a season of alternative for Nigerians.
He emphasised the pressing want to organize Nigerians for the way forward for work as formed by speedy technological transformation, digital ecosystems and shifting international job dynamics.
The LEEP initiative, a flagship programme of the President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, is designed to equip Nigerians with essential digital, vocational and entrepreneurial abilities.
It targets all sectors of the economic system, together with the rising gig and distant work economies, leveraging know-how to attach employers with a prepared, expert workforce.
Shettima subsequently discouraged the pattern of mass emigration, recognized popularly as “Japa” and urged Nigerians to consider within the nation’s potential and make investments their abilities at house.
“Conventional employment buildings are giving approach to digital ecosystems, however on this uncertainty lies a sea of alternative, if solely we’re daring sufficient to grab it.
“All we’d like is to equip our youth. They don’t must Japa from this nation, we’re a nation of over 230 million individuals, with a median age of 16.9, by 2050, we’ll be 440 million robust, the tenth most populous nation on this planet”, the Vice President famous.
Highlighting Nigeria’s benefits from English language fluency to proximity to international market, Shettima additionally harassed the nation’s potential to turn out to be a world outsourcing hub, referring to India’s $125 billion annual outsourcing income as a benchmark Nigeria can surpass.
In his goodwill remarks, Minister of Labour and Employment, Maigari Dingyadi, reaffirmed the federal government’s dedication to preventing unemployment by strategic and sustainable interventions.
“By means of this programme, our goal is to create thousands and thousands of jobs yearly, LEEP is structured to establish marketable abilities and construct youth capability, matching expertise with demand and inspiring self-reliance”, Dingyadi mentioned.
The LEEP initiative will function by six strategic pillars of digital nomads and LEEP digital academy providing programs in software program growth, AI, digital advertising and marketing and information evaluation to organize a tech-savvy workforce.
It’ll additionally centre on Vocational and Entrepreneurship Programmes (VEP), job festivals and Nationwide Digital Labour Change (NELEX) and studying centres, together with distant work initiative and labour compliance digitisation.
Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, will lead the programme’s rollout to make sure its nationwide accessibility.
“With LEEP, we’re setting a transparent nationwide goal, to instantly and not directly create a minimum of 2.5 million sustainable jobs inside two years, whereas laying the muse for long run development and productiveness”, Onyejeocha mentioned.
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