The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Dr. Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, has revealed that she has no office where she works from.

Onyejeocha made this disclosure on Thursday in an interview with the African Independent Television (AIT).

“This is the Ministry of Labour and Employment but even the Minister of State doesn’t have an office because the place I am staying currently, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Aviation has been allocated that same place,” Onyejeocha said.

“Where do I go to? We have to stay there because even the minister’s office, they said we will have to go to the seventh floor which is not ready and it’s not going to be ready in the next couple of months.

“So, I believe that we will put all our energy in this new National Directorate of Employment (NDE) building to make sure that it is finished with speed of light so that those who do not have office will just come in there.”

The Ministry of Labour and Employment earlier this week said the NDE has the capacity to provide skills’ acquisition programmes to the unemployed across the six geo-political zones.

Onyejeocha has made this known at the inspection of the new permanent head office for the NDE in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

The minister said the new office complex would enable the NDE to discharge its mandate of creating sustainable employment through various skills acquisition programmes.

She also promised to liaise with the Ministry of Finance to release money to to finish the edifice in good time.

Also speaking, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Mohammad Dingyadi gave assurance that the NDE would create job opportunities for the teeming youths.

”I am satisfied with what I have seen and so far so good. I do hope that the NDE will try to move in as quickly as possible. They are already paying rents on that one and by the time we are here that will be off our neck,” Dingyadi stated.