Unemployment Crisis Must Be Reversed, Says Shettima

Vice President Kashim Shettima has said the growing informal sector and low labour force participation occasioned by the staggering unemployment rate in Nigeria must be reversed.

This, he said, is the impression of an unfavourable society the Human Capital Development (HCD) Programme is designed to avert under the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Shettima made the promise yesterday during the launch of the Nasarawa State Human Capital Development Strategy Document & Gender Transformative Human Capital Development Policy Framework held in Lafia, the state capital.

Speaking at the event, the vice president in a statement by his spokesman, Stanley Nkwocha, emphasised that the administration’s goal is to empower Nigerians with globally competitive skills. This strategy, he noted, would enable Nigerian workers to excel both domestically and in the international job market.