MAIDUGURI – The Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE – P) will empower 400 youths and women in Borno as part of efforts to provide 50,000 jobs in the country.
The Chairman of the Programme, Retired Gen. Martin Luther Agwai, made this known at a one-day Graduate Internship Scheme (GIS) workshop in Maiduguri on Friday.
Represented by Hajiya Salamatu Manga, a resource person of the SURE-P, Agwai said the scheme would sharpen the skills of participants, build human capital and prepare them for future challenges.
Agwai said the workshop was designed to assist unemployed graduates to be self-employed, as well as to build manpower base toward attaining Federal Government’s Vision 20:2020.
“It will also boost the chances of participants to gaining employment in their various firms of internship,” he said.
The SURE-P boss said the Programme, under the scheme, would ensure that youths were attached as apprentices in reputable public and private firms for a period of one year.
He explained that the scheme had registered 50 firms in Borno, where participants would be attached according to their areas of specialisation.
He added that during the one-year internship, the Federal Government would provide N30,000 as monthly allowance to each of the beneficiaries.
“Statistics have shown that over 300,000 Nigerian graduates from the university yearly into the labour market with little or no job opportunity.
“That is why the Federal Government is trying to see that 50,000 people are employed across the 36 states of the federation.’’
According to him, over 180,000 graduates have so far registered across the country with over 7,000 firms that will accommodate them for a one year internship programme. (NAN)