Ekiti State was carved out of old Ondo State in 1996 by the then Head of State, General Sani Abacha. The state is largely agrarian. In other words, agriculture is the mainstay of the state economy and it employs 75 per cent of the state working population.  The current population of the state is put…

A non-governmental organisation, United Global Resolve For Peace (UGRFP), has urged the Federal Government to create jobs that would discourage Nigerians from seeking greener pastures abroad.  It said government must provide enabling environment that would be conducive for Nigerians who want to go into small and medium businesses, stressing that resorting to loans from international…

A new special purpose investment vehicle - Family Homes Funds (FHF) plans to support the development of over 500,000 homes and 1.5million jobs for the low income earners by 2023. FHF have the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority and the Federal Ministry of Finance Incorporated as founding shareholders. Through International recruitment firm – PriceWaterHouse Coopers, the…

The commitment to reduce barriers to decent employment for the youth has gotten a major boost as McDonald has joined 43 partners who have pledged to reduce barriers to decent employment for youth while boosting access to decent work around the globe. McDonald’s Corporation is the latest company to make a commitment to address the…

The Federal Government’s failure to get the Brass Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project in Bayelsa State, (which it initiated) on stream, nearly 15 years after, has robbed the country of over $24b in estimated revenue, as well as, about 18, 000 jobs.    

Group Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer of Gospell Digital Technology Limited, and Chairman Set Top Box Manufacturers Association Of Nigeria (STBMAN), Sir Godfrey Ohuabunwa, in this interview with MARGARET MWANTOK, spoke on the sloppy pace of digitisation and factors that have imperiled the digital switch-over process. What stage is Nigeria now in the digitisation process?…

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) would revamp the shut Liquefied Natural Gas (LPG) plant to save about 1,000 jobs.    This comes as the NCDMB applauds the Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) for awarding the contract for the provision of a new build Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) ship to a fully indigenous company,…

The Management of BelemaOil Producing Limited has denied a purported recruitment exercise for graduates and non-graduates into four vacant positions by the company allegedly trending in the social media. The Manager, Corporate Affairs of the firm, Samuel Abel -Jumbo, in a statement made available in Port Harcourt, described the recruitment exercise on two online media…

Nigeria’s technology space is getting more interesting! This is because more technology hubs are being established in the country, giving hope for a knowledge economy and increased job creations. The Guardian findings showed that there are now about 50 technology hubs in Nigeria, up from seven about five years ago. Further checks revealed that South…

Within the next five years, Nigeria’s economy is expected to create over three million jobs yearly to maintain the current unemployment rate of 14 per cent, the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) policy report has said. The report, which was made available to The Guardian at the weekend, also said that the 2016 global…

The major expansions of higher learning institutions by the Gombe State Governor, Dr. Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo is of no doubt to bring about thousands of jobs to the state, and hundreds of millions of Naira through research, development and business activity.   With Dankwambo’s vision of making Gombe home to the best-educated, most-skilled and productive…

Lagos State government said about 11,268 jobs were created in the last 12 months through its employability and loans programme.   The Commissioner for Wealth Creation and Employment, Pharmacist Uzamat Akinbile-Yussuf, who disclosed this during the ongoing 2018 Ministerial Press Briefing to mark Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s third anniversary, said that as a result, 8797 new…