– Since President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in to office in 2015, he has been tackling major problems including economic challenges faced by the country
– Professor Yemi Osinbajo revealed that apart from other issues, President Buhari is seriously bothered about providing employment
President Muhammadu Buhari’s main challenge at this time is the creation of job opportunities for the rising unemployed in Nigeria, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has revealed.
Osinbajo said this as the federal government begins to implement its innovation and technology initiatives with the establishment of hubs in each of the six geo-political zones of the country.
ZENITHBLOG.com reports that the vice president made the announced on Thursday, April 13 in Jimeta, Adamawa adding that the state would host the innovation hub for the north-east region.
Osinbajo said the government was making critical decisions for the good of the country
Speaking at the commissioning of several road projects completed by the Adamawa state government, Osinbajo expressed hope regarding the economy as he said: “We are seeing a bright light at the end of the tunnel.
“During the campaigns in 2014/2015, the president made it clear that he had three major objectives: security, corruption and economy. We have seen the successes in security and the fight against corruption and in the economy we are seeing a bright light at the end of the tunnel.
“A major concern of Mr President is the issue of unemployment and even yesterday he was talking about what he could do in the short term to create more opportunities for the youths.
“One of the programmes of our party and one of the programmes of government is the N-Power
“There is also the GEEP programme of Micro-Credit for market women, artisans, for vocational persons who have vocational skills. A lot of the micro-credit is now available and am sure that in the next couple of months we would be able to benefit from it in this State.
“We started a project with the International Committee of the Red Cross, the American University of Nigeria, Yola, and other institutions of higher learning on how we can use technology to solve the humanitarian problems in the North-East.
“The federal government’s proposed innovation hub for the North-East will be here in Adamawa State in partnership with the American University and other institutions.
“The first step will be a mega-fund working with the ICRC Global Innovation Team which will give an opportunity to the internally displaced persons to become active part of the process to provide solution to the problem they face everyday using technology.
“This will give Nigeria an opportunity to work with international organizations to export innovative humanitarian solutions to other parts of the world.”
Continuing, Osinbajo said that now that he has a chieftaincy title in the state, he wishes to set up a home which he would visit once in a while.
Watch this video of Osinbajo commissioning the Lagos-Ibadan rail line project as captured by ZENITHBLOG.com:
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