Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved that the Special Public Works Programme (SPW) aimed at empowering 1,000 Nigerians to be extended to all the 774 local governments.<\/p>\n
In a statement of Monday, it was announced that the programme has been extended to all 36 States and FCT from October to December 2020.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will result in the employment of 774,000 Nigerians (1,000 people per LGA),\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n
It was, however, stated that the funding will come from the new #COVID19 Crisis Intervention Fund.<\/p>\n
In February, the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) kicked off a Special Public Works Programme (SPW) to engage young Nigerians in rural local governments.<\/p>\n
According to the initial plan, 40,000 young Nigerians, aged 18-30, have been engaged in a pilot phase in 8 States, 5 rural LGAs per state with 1,000 beneficiaries per LGA.<\/p>\n
The eight states are; Ebonyi, Borno, Edo, Ekiti, Adamawa, Kwara, Katsina, and JigawaThe SPW is a 3-month paid initiative aimed at engaging young unemployed Nigerians in rural areas, during the dry (non-farming) season.<\/p>\n
SPW Beneficiaries are engaged to carry out clearing\/cleaning of streets, markets, schools, drains, etc; and also maintenance of rural feeder roads.<\/p>\n
POLITICS NIGERIA understands that no skills or formal education are required for the SPW Program as the targeted areas are rural communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Africa Press-Nigeria: President Muhammadu Buhari has approved that the Special Public Works Programme (SPW) aimed at empowering 1,000 Nigerians to be extended to all the 774 local governments. In a statement of Monday, it was announced that the programme has been extended to all 36 States and FCT from October to December 2020. \u201cIt will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":23555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[509,1001],"class_list":["post-23553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-employment","tag-federal-government"],"yoast_head":"\n