The federal authorities of Nigeria on Tuesday formally launched the Labour Employment and Empowerment Programme (LEEP), focusing on 2.5 million job creation in two years.
Nigeria’s Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, formally launched the LEEP on the Presidential Villa, Abuja, giving extra insights on this system.
This was disclosed in a press release by Stanley Nkwocha, Senior Particular Assistant to the President on Media & Communications (Workplace of the Vice President) on fifteenth April 2025.
Nairametrics beforehand reported that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in his Independence Day speech on October 1, 2024, revealed that the federal authorities would launch the Renewed Hope Labour LEEP, which is anticipated to create 2.5 million jobs.
“LEEP is the fulfilment of the promise made by His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, to construct a nationwide ecosystem the place each Nigerian employee can attain their full potential and the place expertise enhances, not threatens, our labour market,” he added.
“The Labour Employment and Empowerment Programme, LEEP, is a well-considered response to a urgent nationwide want.
“As jobs turn into more and more susceptible to technological disruption, our responsibility is to not lament however to arrange. LEEP goals to offer complete coaching that equips our individuals with the fitting abilities to compete and contribute to immediately’s world economic system.
“This intervention isn’t nearly creating jobs. It’s about transformation. LEEP targets all sectors of the economic system, together with the increasing Gig economic system, and leverages expertise to attach employers with a talented and prepared workforce,” he added.
“LEEP was fastidiously articulated by the Ministry of Labour and Employment in collaboration with its parastatals to, amongst different targets, equip younger Nigerians with employability abilities within the bid to create wealth and contribute to the {economic} growth of the nation by creating 2.5 million jobs in two years,” the official acknowledged.
Recall that President Bola Tinubu had, in March 2025, launched the Nigerian Youth Academy (NiYA) as a part of the federal authorities’s effort to deal with Nigeria’s low human capital index rating, unemployment, and different obstacles.
This growth comes even because the unemployment fee in Nigeria decreased to 4.3% within the second quarter of 2024, reflecting a 1-percentage-point drop from the 5.3% recorded in Q1 2024.
