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  • We are hitting our 200,000 jobs target, Edo SSG

    …7100 apply for EDSTMA job

     

     

    Secretary to the Edo State Government, Barr. Osarodion Ogie, on Wednesday said the state government is gradually hitting the targeted 200,000 jobs it promised during the electioneering campaigns.

     

    Barr. Ogie said over 50,000 youths have been employed through the Edo Jobs initiative and introduction of e-ticketing for collection of revenue.

     

    He said 250 graduates out of the over 7100 that applied would be employed into the revamped Edo State Traffic Management Agency.

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     Ogie who spoke to newsmen in Bénin City disclosed that screening has commenced for the training of 6,600 youths in intelligence gathering to help fight crimes in communities.

     

    The Edo SSG said the revolution being carried out by Governor Godwin Obaseki administration is to empower thousands of people instead of a few individuals.

     

    He stated that reforms in the local councils have led to increase Internally Generated Revenue that local councils could now pay salaries, clear back log of salaries arrears and award contracts.

     

    According to him, “We are not yet two years in office but we are close to our 200,000 jobs target. Government does not want to waste money so we are building institutions.

     

    “We restored law and order. Pensioners are now happy but some persons want us to reverse ourselves. If we do that, the people will not have respect for us.

     

    “You see many applying for EDSTMA job. When we started, nobody thought that EDSTMA will work. We are carrying out revolution and the people are happy for it.”

  • Aspirant to create 200,00 jobs in one year

    A governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, Prof. Adeolu Durotoye, has promised to create 200,000 jobs in his first 12 months in office, if he becomes governor.

    Addressing reporters on a programme, News Point, organised by the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) at its secretariat in Osogbo, the state capital, Durotoye said job creation would be on his priority list.

    The PDP aspirant said Osun State needs someone with capability to run its economy.

    Durotoye said he was using the party’s platform to actualise his governorship ambition because the party provides a level-playing field for all.

    Durotoye, who said he knew the state’s debt profile, level of unemployment and students’ performance, added that he had the solutions to them.

    He said: “How do you create Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) without jobs? I am already talking with investors around the world. I am going to bring manufacturing plants to Osun with an enabling environment. So, creating jobs is a necessity.”

    The PDP chieftain noted that governance is a serious business and should not be left in the hands of the lazy-minded.

    Durotoye said: “Governance requires a lot of hard work, integrity and so much energy, which I believe I have sufficiently.”

    The expert said he would create jobs through private initiatives, public private partnership and public initiatives.

    He added: “I have gone round the state and found the need to make development go round the state, instead of concentrating it in one place. The largest individual producer of rice in Nigeria today is Cosmas Maduka. He has cultivated 1,650 hectares of land. I have spoken to him. I have spoken to some industrialists in South Africa and Turkey.

    “If elected, I will talk to the owners of Osogbo Steel Rolling Mills and Machine tools to ensure that they start functioning to engage our youths.

    “When you multiply 200,000 jobs with about six dependants, it will amount to about 1.2 million people whose life would be affected. Creation of jobs is not negotiable but essential. Another multiplier effect is that Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) would increase and payment of salaries would be made easier.

    “Good governance is 80 per cent economics and 20 per cent politicking as Osun State is in an extraordinary situation which requires extraordinary capabilities from a man like me to handle. Governance is a serious business that requires hard work and I belong to that group.

    “I am 48 years, still energetic to work. I have links with the three senatorial zones of the state. I was born in Ede, Osun West, born by Osogbo, Osun Central parents, schooled in Ife, Osun East.”

    He said he would ensure tourism, education, agriculture and food security receive deserved attention.

     

  • Group to govt: create jobs

    Christian Ministers United Forum Group (CMUF) has  identified unemployment as one of the challenges facing the economy.

    At a forum in Lagos, the group’s President, Comrade James Okocha, said unemployment has been rising over the years. He said while the onus was on the government to create jobs, especially through an enabling environment for SMEs to thrive, there was a clear indication that Nigerians were willing to explore various opportunities in tackling unemployment.

    He said: ”An important line of action the government needs to adopt in creating jobs through an enabling environment would be to address Nigeria’s infrastructure issue; especially in the area of adequate power supply as this would naturally incentivise the spring of more SMEs and attract more foreign investors. This will in turn lead to more employments opportunities in the country.’’

    Okocha said another critical line of action, which needed to be considered, was the revival of the agricultural sector with emphasis on improving the image of agriculture to attract youth participation, employing greater use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), partnership with the private sector, easy access to land and credit in order to make agriculture more lucrative.

    “These would go a long way in tackling the issue of unemployment especially for the Nigerian youths as well as create opportunities for multiple streams of income even for the employed,” he said.

    Okocha also lamented over the various killing across the country, saying if not properly handled, it would lead to anarchy.

  • 24m jobs coming in Greener economy

    Twenty-four million new jobs will be created worldwide by 2030 if the right policies to promote a greener economy are put in place, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said.

    According to the report of the global labour watch body, tagged “World employment and social outlook, 2018: Greening with jobs,” action to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius will result in sufficient job creation to more than offset job losses of six million.

    The report noted that new jobs would be created by adopting sustainable practices in the energy sector, including changes in the energy mix, promoting the use of electric vehicles and improving the energy efficiency of buildings.

    Ecosystem services – including air and water purification soil renewal and fertilisation, pest control, pollination and protection against extreme weather conditions – sustain, farming, fishing, forestry and tourism, which employ 1.2 billion workers.

    But projected temperature increases will make heat stress, particularly in agriculture, more common. It can lead to several medical conditions, including exhaustion and stroke, the report indicated.

    It calculates that heat stress will cause a two percent global loss in hours worked by 2030 due to sickness.

    ILO Deputy Director-General, Deborah Greenfield said: “The findings of our report underline that jobs rely heavily on a healthy environment and the services that it provides. The green economy can enable millions more people to overcome poverty, and deliver improved livelihoods for this and future generations, saying “this is a very positive message of opportunity in a world of complex choices.”

    At the regional level, the report indicated, there will be net job creation in the Americas, Asia and the Pacific and Europe, representing some three million, 14 million and two million jobs, resulting from measures taken in the production and use of energy.

    In contrast, there could be net job losses in the Middle East (-0.48 per cent) and Africa (-0.04 per cent) if current trends continue, due to the dependence of these regions on fossil fuel and mining.

  • How Shell assists contractors, creates jobs, others, by Okunbor

    Shell companies in Nigeria – Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited (SPDC), Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) and Shell Nigeria Gas Limited (SNG), said they have boosted Nigerian contractors’ operations and supported community development projects with N312.3 billion in 2017.

    Country Chair, Shell Companies in Nigeria and SPDC Managing Director, Osagie Okunbor, disclosed this yesterday at the 2018 Shell in Nigeria Briefing Notes’ presentation in Lagos. The briefing unveiled shell companies’ activities and contributions to the nation’s economy in 2017.

    Okunbor said Shell operated ventures produced an average of 631,000 barrels of oil equivalent daily (boe/d) in 2017, spent $228million (about N82.3 billion) on community-driven projects from 2006 and supported Nigerian contractors with N230 billion in 2017.

    The SPDC and SNEPCo, he said, contributed $1.9 billion to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) from 2002 to 2017,  adding that some 290 Nigerian contractors, have received loans worth more than N472 billion under the Shell Contractor Support Fund, which was set up by Shell companies in Nigeria to help vendors and suppliers in the oil and gas industry secure funds at reduced interest rates, relaxed collateral requirements and quicker processing time.

    According to him, Shell companies in Nigeria awarded contracts worth over N230 billion to Nigerian contractors in 2017, representing 94 per cent of the total contracts in that year. Shell companies started their intervention in 2011 with the Shell Kobo Fund, which gave way to the Shell Contractor Support Fund the following year with seven participating financial institutions, which have since set aside more than N690 billion for contract execution by Nigerian companies.

    Okunbor listed the engaging banks as Access, Skye, Zenith  and Stanbic IBTC, as well as First Bank, Standard Chartered  and Guaranty Trust Bank.

    “We’re pleased to support Nigerian contractors to play greater roles in the oil and gas industry,” said Okunbor, adding: “As pioneers in the industry, we have taken deliberate steps to award contracts to Nigerian vendors and worked with them to grow their capacity, cost efficiency and delivery timelines.

    “We discovered, however, that access to finance has been a challenge, and the search for solution led to the Shell Contractor Support Fund,” he explained.

    Nigerian ownership of key assets, such as rigs, helicopters and marine vessels, Okunbor said, is also a focus with Shell companies providing technical and financial support to companies across a range of sectors, including transportation, manufacturing and Research and Development.

    On social investment, Okunbor said Shell companies have continued to work with government, communities and the civil society to fund and implement projects and programmes that have lasting impacts on people’s lives in the Niger Delta in particular and Nigeria as whole.

    He said since 2006, the SPDC JV  has disbursed more than N41 billion to 37 active Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU) clusters in Rivers, Delta, Bayelsa and Abia states, adding that a GMoU is an agreement that brings a group (or cluster) of communities together with representatives of state and local governments, SPDC and NGOs, with the SPDC  JV providing five-year funding for communities to implement development projects of their choice.

    The Shell boss said social investment activities of the companies focus on community and enterprise development, education, health, access-to-energy and road safety, pointing out that in 2017, SPDC JV, Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company and Shell Nigeria Gas, spent more than N18 billion on direct social investment projects. Nigeria, he noted, has the largest concentration of social investment spending in the Shell Group.

    Okunbor said Shell’s flagship oil field, Bonga, has delivered a total of 763 million barrels of oil between its first production in 2005 and end of 2017, adding that the company has expanded the field with further drilling of wells in Bonga Phases 2 and 3 and through a subsea tie-back, which unlocked the nearby Bonga North West field in August 2014.

    Also at the briefing, SNEPCo’s Managing Director, Bayo Ojulari, said Bonga‘s success story is not only that it is Nigeria’s first oil and gas production project in more than 1,000 metres of water depth, or that it increased Nigeria’s oil production capacity by 10 per cent in 2005, but that it is a Nigerian venture delivered by Nigerians, using global expertise and processes offered by Shell that have launched Nigeria into the league of notable deepwater players.

    The Bonga turnaround maintenance in March and April 2017, he said, was a significant milestone in SNEPCo’s operations. “This was the most complex and largest of the three previous turnaround maintenances in the 12-year history of Bonga, and has helped to ensure safe and sustained production and reduced unscheduled production deferments. More than 1,000 people and more than 50 Nigerian contractor and sub-contractor companies participated in the exercise,” he added.

    The SNG Managing Director, Ed Ubong, also gave scorecard of his company.

  • We’ll create 500,000 jobs with $22.5b private investments, says Osinbajo

    •Amaechi: Buhari changing Nigeria from rent culture to productive economy

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday said the government’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) Focus Labs has identified more than $22.5 billion in private investments from about 164 projects.

    These have the capability to unlock the Nigerian economy, he added.

    Prof. Osinbajo spoke at the ERGP Focus Labs Open Day at the International Conference Centre in Abuja.

    The Vice President said the identified projects are expected to create 513, 981 jobs by 2020.

    He added that the outcome of the six-week Focus Labs, which was launched by President Muhammadu Buhari on March 13, showed that $10.9 billion of investments “are what we call ‘Most Ready’ projects, that is we are almost sure to unlock these projects and accelerate their delivery by the private sector.

    “These projects are forecast to create more than half a million new permanent jobs for the people of Nigeria up till the year 2020, demonstrating the far-reaching impact of the ERGP Focus Labs in unleashing a brighter future for our country,” he said.

    He said the focus labs were designed to accelerate the implementation of the ERGP and that during the six weeks, participants of the labs, made up of both public and private sector representatives, rigorously drilled down the issues with the projects presented, and brain-stormed on how to resolve these issues, and the bureaucratic reforms needed to fast-track development.

    The vice president restated the government’s commitment to ensure the completion of the ERGP.

    “Given the overwhelming interest of the private sector in this initiative, and the clamour for more Labs, we are very clear in ensuring that the ERGP Focus Lab would not just be an isolated episode,” he said.

    Osinbajo said the Central Steering Committee, which he chairs, would continue to meet regularly to address bottlenecks the hinder seamless business operations, while a standing committee of permanent secretaries in about seven ministries, supported by private sector experts, has been mandated to ensure that the key implementation decisions made during the Lab are followed through to implementation.

    Minister of Budget and National Planning Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, said the focus labs were conducted in three sectors: agriculture and transportation; manufacturing and processing; as well as power and gas.

    “Our target is to mobilise at least US$45billion or its equivalent in Naira,” he said.

    Udoma said over 300 participants from 180 organisations were involved in the three labs, including relevant ministries, government agencies, authorities and private sector companies, for six weeks with 67,200 man hours completed.

    He said 10 financial institutions, including the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the World Bank, the International Financial Corporations (IFC), the Bank of Industry, among others, were engaged during the focus labs.

    Udoma said the labs could be replicated in the 36 states.

    Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi said the administration should be commended for changing the economy from a rent culture to a productive economy.

    According to him, importation has been reduced drastically, encouraging more production of farm products.

    Amaechi said: “The ERGP was an eye opener on what drives the economy, when we talk about ERGP, it is not only about economy growth but sustenance of the economy growth.

    “I continue to argue with my friends in politics, when they say we have caused hunger and I say no, we have rather brought food and I ask them what offence has President Buhari committed.

    “And they will say no money in circulation, investors ran away and I tell them, they are not correct, that the only offence Mr President has committed is that:

    “He is changing the economy from a rent culture to a production economy; the direction we are going now is to take away that rent culture to a productive economy.”

    “We banned the importation of tomatoes to encourage those producing tomatoes in Kano and that makes it my responsibility to ensure that the narrow gauge line from Kano to Lagos functions properly, “ he said.

    Amaechi said that the narrow gauge lines would begin properly in 2019, stating that the main agreement cost $45million for the interim phase and $2.7billion for the entire project.

    He said that transportation alone would contribute $3.52 billion, which in turn would create 18,366 jobs in the staple and cash sub-sectors toward the overall ERGP investment.

    Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Audu Ogbe said that ERGP focus labs had helped agriculture in the area of exportation and farm management.

    He said previously Nigeria was importing agricultural products that they could have been exported; saying that in the last two years, agriculture export has increased to 180 per cent.

    According to him, rice importation was brought down to 95 per cent even though there are still challenges with smugglers.

    Ogbe said private investment in agriculture was the way to success, adding: “Government cannot own a farm, if they do, they will fail woefully.

    “The key challenges facing agriculture today are access to credit, access to land, land analysis, land management, and security on farms.

    News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the government launched the ERGP in 2017 to restore growth and provide strategic economic direction for the country from 2017-2020.

  • ITF, UNIDO to match youths with jobs

    The Federal Government has come out with a document that will match skilled students under the ITF with jobs, the Director-General, Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Joseph Ari has said.

    Ari, who stated this yesterday during the official presentation of a report on ITF, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) skills gap assessment in Nigeria, said this document “will guide us to work with greater exactitude and reasonable sense of purpose.”

    He said the report will also assure that the people we train in workshops and classrooms across the country will go into jobs that are already waiting, in sectors that are truly short of manpower.

    Ari said the ITF, in line with its mandate and its desire to take a leading role in all matters of hands on skills, entered into collaboration with UNIDO to conduct a skills survey.

    He said: “This is to provide information on industrial skills demand, supply and gaps in Nigeria, formulate in consultation with relevant stakeholders, policy recommendations and action plan to alleviate the skills gap. serve as basic for government investment in skills development in Nigeria and guide the work of concerned organisations.

    He stated that the report presented today is the work of years of toil of several agencies, who despite all odds strove to produce the document.

     

  • Boosting sugar cane farming to create jobs

    Sunti Golden Sugar Estate in Mokwa, Niger State is poised to change the narrative in sugarcane farming.The estate comprises 17,000 hectares of arable farmland and a mill capable of processing 100,000 tonnes of raw sugar yearly, DANIEL ESSIET reports. 

    Nigeria is one of the major producers of sugarcane in Africa, with about 500,000 hectares of land which can produce about five million metric tonnes (mt) of sugarcane.

    According to  the National Sugar Development Council (NSDC), the five million metric  tonnes (Mt) of sugarcane will yield about three million mt of sugar if processed.

    However, despite the country’s potential in sugar production for local consumption, its reliance on importation has become worrisome as it produces only two per cent of its sugar requirement. Nigeria imports about 1.7 million tonnes of sugar, up from 1.3 million tonnes in 2016.

    To address this, there have been various private sector efforts to encourage increase in acreage and cultivation.

    It was against this backdrop that the sleepy town of Mokwa in Niger State witnessed the inauguration of the Sunti Golden Sugar Estates Limited, a subsidiary of Flour Mills of Nigeria (FMN ), by President Muhammadu Buhari.

    According to Buhari, the N50  billion estate will produce 100,000 tonnes of high quality raw sugar annually to feed Flour Mills Sugar Refinery.

    His words: “While we have had some challenges in the implementation of the National Sugar Master Plan (NSMP) in the past, I believe that our vision of attaining self-sufficiency in sugar in Nigeria is well within sight, with the kind of investment that has been made here. I am told that the Estate will engage up to 10,000 people directly once developed, including a network of over 3,000 small-scale outgrowers of sugarcane. This to my mind is central to this administration’s determination to create jobs and gainfully engage our people.”

    Niger State Governor Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello said the  decision by Flour Mills to set up a sugarcane plantation in Sunti was the kind of step the state  needed to actualise its quest to boost agriculture. The investment, according to him,  is also an evidence of the unexploited potential in the sector.

    Such ventures, he stressed,  are needed and the plantation in particular in Niger State is timely, especially when the overnment is working towards developing a sustainable, diversified and competitive agricultural sector to ensure greater economic stability and growth.

    He  added that the state was interested in ensuring that more investors established enterprises to create jobs to improve people’s livelihood.

    Bello said: “For a long time now, lack of infrastructure has been one of the major hindrances to investment in agriculture. To this end, the government is working  to support infrastructure across the state.”

    He said while the state appreciated and welcomed investors as partners in development, it expected  them  to take part by investing in agriculture and helping to grow the economy and eradicate poverty.

    “Niger people are proud farmers. For many years, we have cultivated rice, sorghum, millet, cowpeas, corn (maize), palm oil and kernels, kola nuts and sugarcane for local consumption and export. To this end, agriculture has always been a top priority for our state and will always receive our utmost support.

    “When we declared 2018 as the year of ‘Agricultural revolution,’ in Niger State, it was a reminder to our people of the immense natural resources that we have been blessed with. And that is why projects such as  the Sunti Sugar Estate are a perfect model for investment in our state. From my last visit to Sunti Golden Sugar Estates in 2016 to date, I must say that I am delighted with the level of work and investment that has been put into this project,” Bello said.

    Flour Mills Chairman Mr. John Coumantaros said: “The farm at peak production will provide direct employment for about 10,000 people yearly, and impact up to 50,000 people indirectly, including 3,000 small-scale outgrowers, who will be cultivating sugar cane to feed the mill.

    “The project illustrates the desire to reduce sugar importation, save billions in foreign exchange, boost local capacity and reduce unemployment by putting thousands of Nigerians to work,” he said.

    He thanked the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Bank of Industry (BoI), the Ministries of Finance, Industry, Trade and Investment and Agriculture for their support for the project, adding that “a project of this nature could never have taken place without the staunch support of Mr President and the Niger State Governor.”

    He said N50 billion had been invested in the Sunti Golden Sugar Estate. The company, he said, has significantly invested in food and agro-allied value chains to align with the government’s agricultural initiatives.

    Flour Mills, he explained, is determined to ensure the success of agro-allied investments through maximising local content in the company’s final products while it remains committed to its policy of being involved at all stages of the food value chain: from farm to table.

    Enclosed within a 35-kilometre dyke, the production facility area is about 17,000 hectares, with a cane area of a maximum output of 10,000 hectares.

    The estate features the state-of-the-art irrigation system that will ensure efficient cultivation of sugar cane, with infrastructure, which includes drain pumps, pump stations and power grid.

    Drains, culverts and flood-protection walls have also been constructed. The state-of-the art operations bring new technology to the sugar cane farming and milling industry that is poised to increase production yield, create new jobs for Nigerians and teach them new skills. Currently, sugar cane is grown on 3,000 hectares and cultivated under irrigation, making it an annual crop, with 276 hectare (ha) furrow, 700ha pivot and the balance under sprinkler irrigation.

    It is harvested by hand and transported by road to the factory using haulage tractors to pull a pair of tandem trailers with a capacity for 30 tonnes of cane.

    The estate has brought infrastructure benefits to the surrounding community, with 28 communities taking advantage of the new 30-kilometre road plus expansive road networks, which provide a variety of access routes to indigenes’ homes.

    At the farm, smart agriculture is helping the company increase crop yield,optimise workers and machines performance .

    Processing will ensure every part of the cane is used.

    As a result of the steady demand for skilled workers, which will grow, Niger State will draw labour  from other states, and provide training for local workers.

  • Google launches new job Search experience

    Google launches new job Search experience

    American multinational technology company, Google has announced a new job Search experience that aims to help job seekers find employment opportunities.
    This was announced at an event held at the country office at Ikoyi, Lagos State, hosting stakeholders like Jobberman, NGCareers, MyJobMag among others.
    In her speech, Juliet Ehimuan-Chiazor, Google Country Manager in Nigeria observed that unemployment contributes largely to the pressure that families, the society and the Nigerian nation suffer from, posing serious threat to national security.
    The Google Country Chief noted that unemployment is a major problem but emphasised another problem as “Connecting the right people with right employers.”
    “Job seekers say no job, employers say no employable persons. So even if the jobs are available, seekers don’t know how to find them, hence Google launches Job Search Within Google.”
    “Through the job search feature on Google, when someone uses their phone or computer to search on Google for a job, they will see a streamlined experience letting them explore, research and find relevant, local job postings.
    According to the search engine giant, this launch builds on its existing commitment in Sub Saharan Africa to improve economic opportunities for job seekers and employers, demonstrated through its Grow with Google initiatives.”
    Recall that the Digital Skills for Africa program, which Google committed to between April 2016 and March 2017 to train 1million African youth, was achieved and surpassed.
    In July 2017 this program was extended to see 10m youths trained by 2022 as well as 100,000 developers trained across the region. Ehimuan-Chiazor noted that the company took 6 startups to Silicon valley last year and will bring the initiative to Nigeria this year.
    Also speaking at the launch, Afolabi Imoukhuede Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Job creation & Youth empowerment, confirmed Ehimuan-Chiazor’s observation of the unemployability cases in Nigeria.
    According to him, the root causes for unemployment in Nigeria is largely unemployability. He stressed that when anyone disaggregates the unemployment rates in Nigeria, the real issues is when you begin to cascade down to youth demography.
    The NPower Project Coordinator noted that the whole point on the core of technology is that a lot of things would have been difficult to achieve without technology.
    “The job world is really evolving and I guess it has changed. In Nigeria, maybe our catch-up is a little slower but the job world is changed. All the job contracts I could see are traditional job contracts.
    “Thanks to Google, the world is moving in a completely different direction with new and emerging skills that are not even thought within the four walls of the university.
    “This is clearly an initiative, and a project that speaks very closely to the heart of what we do. Because it is a problem that we must attack head-on, and platforms like this, alliances and networks like this are the sustainable ways by which we can give a lasting solution to it.
    “This project is what the federal government is proud to endorse. We must commend Google for what they do. We recognise what technology means to us in Nigeria and what it means to the world.
    “We have the assets. The greater number of our population is the youths demography. Our focus is how to turn these our youths into an asset and not a liability,” Imoukhuede said.
    Ehimuan-Chiazor further added that fnding employment is still very difficult for many people. This new job Search experience will help the millions of Nigerians searching for new opportunities.
    “We believe that the web allows anyone, anywhere, of any age, to grow their business, learn the skills they need to get a job, to grow in their career, become an entrepreneur or developer. This new jobs Search tool will be a key driver for connecting job seekers to open opportunities, helping more people to Grow with Google,” she summed.
    What the launch means is that job seekers in Nigeria,  South Africa and Kenya will be able to use the new job search experience to quickly and easily find opportunities suited to them, through an immersive experience that lets them explore jobs from across the web and refine their search to meet their specific needs.
    Similarly, users will able to view at-a-glance details about the posting, such as job title, location, whether it’s full-time, part-time or an internship, as well as detailed information should a job be of interest. Using Google Maps integration, job seekers can search for jobs any place they can find on the map, and if they’re signed in, they can even see how long it would take to commute to the job from home through Google maps.
    Searching for a new job can take time, so if you step away from your job search, Google has made it easy to pick up where you left off as well as stay in the loop on opportunities that are right for you. Simply push the “get alerts” button to get email notifications when new jobs matching your search appear.
    “As this is an open ecosystem, Google is inviting all job sites, platforms and employers — big and small — to integrate with us and make their jobs eligible to display in the new jobs search experience.  With Google’s newly released open documentation, any jobs provider is able to integrate its content through open structured schema.org web markup standards Google supports,” the tech firm said.
    To optimise the feature and make it more useful, Google is working with a broad and growing cross-section of partners, such as the Federal Government, Jobberman, NGCareers, MyJobMag and other job resource websites in Nigeria. These collaborations ensure Google is able to present job postings content accurately, as soon as it is posted, to exactly the people that will find it most relevant.
  • FIIRO eyes five million jobs yearly

    FIIRO eyes five million jobs yearly

    The Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi (FIIRO) has unveiled an action plan to fight unemployment. It aims to create over five million jobs yearly.

    Its Director-General, Prof Gloria Elemo told The Nation that the package was designed to stimulate economic activities through processing and value addition to raw materials of relative advantage in each of the 774 Local Government Areas (LGAs).

    She said the institute carried out  a comprehensive study on raw materials of relative abundance in the LGAs and came up with technologies that suit the raw material for massive economic exploitation.

    She said: “We have carried out a comprehensive survey on raw materials of relative abundance in all the 774 LGAs in Nigeria. Equally, we have identified FIIRO technologies that are suitable for processing the raw materials in these LGAs for the establishment of micro, small, medium and large enterprises.

    “FIIRO has developed over 250 technologies in its 61 years of existence and these technologies can be deployed in the 774 LGAs for massive job creation and economic stimulation through processing and value addition to raw materials of relative advantage in each of the LGA.

    “We have developed a blueprint on how this process could create about five million jobs annually through direct and multiplier effects. This will ensure economic independence through drastic reduction in imported goods thereby saving foreign exchange.”

    She said FIIRO is more prepared to deploy its technologies in support and realisation of the objectives of the government’s Change Agenda, stressing that the institute’s total technology package include the development of both process technologies and the machinery and equipment.

    “The institute is ensuring effective technology diffusion through effective collaboration with relevant stakeholders, including Nigeria Society of Engineers, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Agricultural Machinery and Equipment Fabricators Association of Nigeria (AMEFAN), National Association of Small and Medium Entrepreneurs (NASME), National Association of Small Scale Industrialists (NASSI), and Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN),” Elemo said.

    She noted that the institute had developed a high nutrient density biscuit and drink for the National School Feeding Programme, established industrial enzymes model plant and a  state-of-the-art molecular laboratory.

    Elemo pointed out that FIIRO had  driven the 20 per cent inclusion of cassava flour into wheat flour, which has saved the country billions in foreign exchange spent yearly on the importation of wheat flour.