The Federal Government has commenced shortlisting candidates for the 500,000 jobs it promised.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said this
on
Wednesday in Abuja when a delegation of the National Council for Women’s
Societies (NCWS) paid him a courtesy visit in his office.
Mr. Mohammed said applications were being received and the government
had started processing them for the recruitment. “The process for the
recruitment has started. “About 1.2 million people applied and they
classified them into categories including agriculture support officers,
teachers, technical officers and so on,’’ he said.
The minister also said that the payment of N5, 000 conditional cash
transfer promised by the
government would begin before the end of the
month. He said the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, had earlier
announced this.
Mr. Mohammed reaffirmed the commitment of the government to improve the
well-being and standard of living of the citizens. “We are very
concerned about the welfare of Nigerians and we are not sleeping; we are
working day and night to ensure that the country retraces its step.
“Many of our critics have been unfair to us because many of them know
that we did not invent the problems we are facing today. “This is time
to join hands together to support the government to move the nation
forward,” he said.
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