The Federal Government has tasked the organized labour comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) and other stakeholders in the sector on mentorship programme for the teeming unemployed youths across the country.
Special Assistant to the President on Youth and Students Affairs, Hon Nasir Sa’idu Adhama, said “Our youths need mentors to guide and give them direction; they needs skills to be employed and we have people with those skills in our offices, organisations, and factories.
“Our strategy therefore, is to partner with those that are already engaging the labour force to provide mentorship, training and guidance to our youth, to build those skills needed to absorb them into the labour force or at least, equip them with skills that they can use to live productive lives.
“I therefore, call on the NLC, TUC, and other stakeholders to adopt an approach of ‘One Unemployed Youth, One Mentor’ as a means of bridging the skills gap that our youths lack, to remain gainfully employed or run their own small business.”
The acting executive chairman of the Federal Character Commission (FCC), Dr. Shettima Bukar-Abba, tasked youths on skills acquisition while urging the government to develop a curriculum of education that emphasis on skills than on certificate.
