PMB Is Creating Enabling Environment for Youths

Minister of Labour and Employment Sen. Chris Ngige has that the present Buhari administration will continue to create enabling environment for Nigerian Youths in the informal sector to realize their potentials.

Speaking when the National Association of Barbers and Salon Employers of Nigeria (NABEN) visited him, the Minister said the determination of the government is one of the cardinal programmes of the Federal Government to formalize the informal sector with emphasis on youth empowerment, re-orientation and creation of job opportunities.

The Minister said “Government cannot provide job for everybody, as job creation is a multifaceted endeavor which runs across Organizations, Ministries, Departments, Agencies of Government and Private Sector’’ As a matter of fact, job creation is the responsibility of the private sector. What Government does is to create the enabling environment.

He stressed the need to encourage the youths in the informal sector who have shown commitment to their Profession, adding that “a lot of you would have gone to join the Boko-Haram or any other societal vices but you decided to engage yourselves meaningfully, and so in the spirit of what International Labour Organization (ILO) preaches it is our responsibility to encourage you to unionize and form for yourselves association of like minds”