The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has been given a level three silver award of excellence for performance in meeting expectations in all key areas of responsibilities including job creation.
This was made known in a statement by the directorate’s deputy director, information and public relations, Israel Adekitan in Abuja.
According to him, the award was given by the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) which scored NDE high in its recent report as a result of the self-assessment tools developed by the BPSR, deployed into the NDE with the overall objective to identify strength, weaknesses and first step towards improvement and performance.
He said, the director-general of BPSR, Dasuki Arabi, said the outcome of the assessment shows that NDE is a level 3 silver grade organisation with 63.6 percent score.
He said the grade is above standard. He therefore presented to the directorate through its director-general, Mallam Abubakar Fikpo, the level 3 silver award of excellence.
He said the challenge facing the directorate is mainly inadequate funding to excellently prosecute unemployment to the satisfaction of many Nigerians. To this end, he said BPSR is willing to partner with the directorate to source for development partners through which the directorate can better leverage on her mandate of job creation nationwide.
In his remarks, Fikpo expressed delight over the report and appreciated the BPSR for keying into the priority areas of the president and assessing the directorate based on the expectations of the new government.
Fikpo said NDE would leverage on the platform presented by the BPSR to key into the policies of the present administration and do what the federal government desires in providing employment to the unemployed and alleviate poverty among Nigerians.
