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The minister of Youths and Sports Development, Sunday Dare has mentioned that federal Government has created a unified platform for unemployed Youths in the country to register.
The minister made this revelation at a three-day sensitization workshop on the use of the Nigeria Online Youth Assembly (NOYA) at the National Youth Development Centre in Ode Omu, Osun State.
The minister who was ably represented by the Director of Procurement in the ministry, Mr. Segun Oke, said the platform was established to put job vacancies on it and to intimate unemployed youths registered under it to be hinted of job vacancies.
He explained that the Federal Government took the step to empower Nigerian youth and disseminate timely information on career enhancing, trainings, job and employment placement opportunities via the unified platform.
According to him, the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development believes that energy, youthfulness are also crucial to national asset.
“the energy, skills and aspirations of young people are crucial assets that no country can afford to waste, and helping them to realise their full potential by gaining access to employment is no doubt a prerequisite to poverty eradication and sustainable development”.
Dare added: “Rather than see the youths as a burden to the society, the creation of a youth job template offers the government a distinctive opportunity to focus on employment and job creation for young persons in the country.”