Minister of Employment Dingyadi: I don’t know statistics of unemployment in Nigeria

Minister of Labour and Employment, Muhammadu Dingyadi, mentioned he wasn’t positive of the statistics of employment in Nigeria, however vowed that his ministry is making frantic efforts to sort out unemployment within the nation.

Dingyadi said this on Monday when he appeared earlier than the Senate Committee on Employment, Labour and Productiveness, chaired by Sen. Diket Plang (APC-Plateau).

Dingyadi, who mentioned that he was barely three months previous in workplace, mentioned that no time was being spared in preventing unemployment.

“We’ve got, every hour, been preventing unemployment within the ministry as a result of that’s our key task.

“All of the ability growth programmes that our ministry is doing, we’re doing it to combat unemployment.

“That is our main duty. And like I mentioned, we’re on prime of the state of affairs to make sure that we combat unemployment to complete,” he said.

When requested in regards to the unemployment statistics within the nation, Dingyadi mentioned that he wouldn’t wish to give figures that he wasn’t positive of.

“We didn’t know that this query was going to be answered. I don’t wish to go into providing you with figures that I’m not very positive of. However I wish to guarantee you that we’ve these figures.

“I didn’t include them. We’ve got to coordinate them as a result of all our parastatals and businesses are engaged on this difficulty of preventing unemployment.

“So we’ll coordinate and supply the committee with these figures. I do know members of this committee are very critical and really clever.

“After we deliver these figures, you’ll know whether or not what we’re telling you is right or not. So please, give us just a little time. We’ll get these figures prepared for you and we are going to make them public if you’d like us to take action.

“I’m positive the figures are there. It’s solely that we didn’t include them as a result of we didn’t know that this query goes to be answered,” he mentioned.

Chairman of the committee, Plang, appreciated President Bola Tinubu’s dedication to the welfare of Nigerian staff, each within the public and the non-public sectors.

He additionally acknowledged the ministry’s dedication to making sure respectable work and selling employment alternatives.

“The latest implementation of the brand new nationwide minimal wage, which took impact on July 29, 2024, is a testomony to this dedication.

“Our price range allocation, which is barely reviewed upward as in opposition to the 2024 Funds Act, will assist the ministry’s efforts to make sure that staff obtain honest compensation,” Plang mentioned.