NDE: Abubakar bows out, Obayan takes over in acting capacity

 Begins registration of unemployed

The acting Director General of National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Mr. Olakunle Obayan, has said that Federal Government is working out modality to commence registration of Unemployed persons in the country.
The DG who was speaking during the formal handover ceremony of the out gone Director General, Mallam Abubakar Mohammed, in Abuja said the directorate is going to vigorously pursue employment generation.

He also said, “We are going to expand the scope of them. This new scheme when they come on board, they are going to take care of the social safety net and something that will need majority of the people to get something doing.

The acting DG also said “we have programmes that are for the graduates of the tertiary institutions as well. We have so many programmes that is design such that it will improve our service delivery system.
“Am going to pursue that vigorously, we are going to start a national registration of unemployed. That we are going to take on fully so that we will have a great idea of how many of them are around.

“We have some but we are going to improve on the information we have in our data base and we are going to make sure that it is something we can access from our different locations even if you are down in the hinterland you should be able to do so.
“We have all these things planned in place, all these will drive as soon as I settle down which is this week, you will start seeing these activities around NDE.”