Nigerian Youth Database Project (NYDP) says it is working to launch a database aimed at providing statistics for one million job seekers every year.

Director General of the non-governmental organisation (NGO), Fubura Blessing, said at a news conference in Abuja that the aim of the project was to complement the federal government’s efforts in creation of jobs.

Data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows that Nigeria’s unemployment rate at the end of the second quarter of 2020 was 27.1 percent, indicating that about 21,764,614 (21.7 million) Nigerians remain unemployed.

‘Creation of jobs is one of the six critical areas of our organisation as we have others’, Blessing said.

‘This database project is fundamental to us because we have a mandate of doing one million jobs in the next one year.

‘This is a support to President Muhammadu Buhari’s directives of creating 100 million jobs for Nigerians.

‘Our idea is to create these jobs based on areas of professional, skilled labourers, art and the production industry.

‘We are also going to set up a desk for entrepreneur development recommendations and references.

‘The idea is for everybody that we will capture his/her profile in the system, no matter where you are nationally.

‘We are going to do a constant analysis of every profile to ensure a proper match for requisitions’.

Blessing further said NYDP was also planning to engage other corporate organisations, government ministries, departments and agencies to solicit for job openings and opportunities.

Source: NAN

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