Minister
of Labor and Employment, Chris Ngige, has said that for any unemployed Nigerian
to benefit from any of the social intervention scheme (SIS) of the
government,
they must register online as registration is now mandatory for job seekers and
other empowerment programmes.
Ngige stated this while flagging off the National
Directorate of Employment (NDE) School-to-Work Programme in Calabar, Cross
River State over the weekend.
He
said this against the backdrop of different agencies of government laying claim
to the ownership of the programmes.
“You
must register to benefit from the Social Intervention Scheme. Unfortunately, as
we speak, by last week, the portal has only recorded about 1.2 million persons.
We expect more persons to have been registered in the portal before our
screening exercise; the registration on the portal is Npower.ng.org.
The
portal closes Aug. 31, which is just few days away. For those who are not
computer literate, we advise state governments to encourage them by using local
government chairmen to move into local government areas to register the
unemployed persons there. So that they can qualify to be considered for the
scheme. Each state of the federation is expected to recruit about 1, 500
persons’’ he said
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