The government of President Muhammadu Buhari may have put a stop to employment into the civil service, Kemi Adeosun, the country’s finance minister, has reportedly said.
The administration had promised massive reduction in the rate of unemployment in the country while the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaigned during the 2015 general election.
Adeosun reportedly told the Senate on Tuesday, October 25, 2016, that the government no longer had no reason to take more people into the public sector.

Nigeria is currently suffering from a huge economic crunch and an inability to make the 2016 budget perform optimally.
The APC also recently took responsibility for the country’s current woes but promised that 2017 would witness a positive lift.
She said what the government planned to do now is strengthen the private sector for more jobs to be created.

The Herald reports that apart from this, the minister maintained that the government would sustain its over N6 trillion national budget in 2017.
Read what Adeosun said:
“Even when the economy was growing, when GDP was eight and nine, we had a massive unemployment problem especially our graduates. I’m sure most of us know that graduates stayed for up to ten years without jobs and the only sector that was really creating jobs was government and government now, has now reached its limit, that a 165 billion amount, I don’t think government can reasonably employ any more people so we have to develop our private sector and to do that, we need infrastructures.

“So, this government is really set about driving infrastructures and that is what we have been trying to do. Everything we have been trying to do, whether it’s been chasing ghost workers, whether it’s efficiency, it all end on one thing-creating that head road so that we can invest in infrastructures.
“We know that if you build a road, in 40 or 50 years time, it would still be there but when you go for training and you go and come back, it’s over. So, it’s a different kind of demand but we think that it’s the foundation of getting this economy moving and creating jobs for our people. So, we have embarked on that, we have been releasing capitals for roads, for power and for so many things. But we have uncovered some challenges, some of which I think we will be coming back to speak to you as a committee.
“Some of the contractors haven’t been paid since 2012, so they just sat on the money and little can they be blamed because their problem is ‘how do I know that this money I have, I would be able to get another one for the next four years.’ So, while we expect them to go back to sites, in fact, in some cases, the bank even sat on their money, didn’t even allow them access to the money at all. The inspecting activities which everybody thought would be forthcoming has not been forthcoming, we have to solve that problem. I would be coming to talk to you on what we are proposing to do.
“We believe that most people in Nigeria, whether contractors, whether…., are owed something by the federal government and we have to sit down and sort it out. The same problem with the states, they too, are claiming that they are owed, the reason why they can’t pay is that they are owed by the federal government. So we need to have a discussion, deal with the problem so that the economy can move forward.

“There’s good news on the horizon in the sense that the prediction that the oil price will be as low as $20 proved to be false alarm and the prediction now is that the oil price will stabilize between $50 and $60, so what Nigeria now has to do is to balance her books so that if it is $50, even if it is $40, we will be able to balance.
“I want to tell you that most of the initiatives have really elicited a lot of savings. We have been able to reduce our payroll. The first payroll I saw when I came here was N165billion and I think the last one I signed was N165billion, it’s going down every month. We are removing ghost workers, we are removing dead people, we are removing those who should have never been there in the first place and that is a continuous exercise we must keep up.

“Honestly, we believe that government has to be very frugal with public money money because it’s scarce and this money belongs to everybody, so we can’t spend it any how. We have to spend it judiciously. I want to really assure you that we are committed to that because we can say that if we can complete one or two major projects, this economy can change.
“We are working very hard with the Ministry of Transportation on the rail project which will bring rail back from Lagos to Kano. That corridor will open up our agriculture, instead of carrying goods on the roads.

“We believe this will create a lot of jobs for our people. Similarly, we are working with the Ministry of Works for our new major road projects including looking at how we can maybe get some private sector money so that we can do some tar roads because we believe that when somebody spends five hours on the road, on a journey that should take one hour, he has already paid the toll, whether is not in terms of his tyre, or his petrol or his time or his health.
“So, if you ask that person to pay N200 and do that journey in 50 minutes, I don’t think Nigerians would have a problem. What we want is infrastructures.

“We have gotten together another public private initiative – the Family Homes Fund, which is private sector driven and the aim of that fund is to find a finances solution to housing development for low cost housing. Most of the houses are around N700 million or less and people will be able to put down just ten percent and park in and then pay the rest over up to 20 years under mortgage system.

“I want to tell you that I remain very confident about our economy. By this time next year, this economy will become a different economy. Just think within, don’t lose heart, we are going to be able to turn around the economy because now, the oil price is stable, we have stabilized our finances, a lot of the waste has stopped. A lot of the stealing has also stopped so it’s only for us now to start completing some projects.”............http://www.aksmedias.com.ng/2016/10/fg.html?m=1


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyFiwrcXllw

CC; lalasticlala

All Promises Cancelled..

Empty promises that will take a life time to fulfill is all that you made in 2015

Too bad

Empty barrell lo ma pariwo?

I thought you guys promised to create 3 million jobs yearly? ..

Clueless lots

What !! ? What then happens to the present vacancies advertisement by FCSC?
Big disappointment it'd be if nothing meaningful comes out of such exercise.
I think this government should stop announcing bad news....

Always giving Nigerians reasons why they can't perform. During previous administration's, what we had was underemployment, people wanting better pay and condition of service but what we have now is total unemployment. People loosing their jobs on a daily basis. The next thing this government will come up with is retrenchment. The good thing is that even the zombies are also affected but guess what? they will still be shouting sai Buhari.

What an elder sees while sitting down, a youth cannot see even from atop the tallest iroko tree.

When we told them during campaigns that the civil service across all spheres (FG, state & local govt) was over bloated and in fact needed trimming, they told us to shut up promising millions of jobs a year without any blueprint on how it would be achieved (to be fair, Lie Mohammed postulated that a single masquerade can employ abi dressed by 10000 people ) . What any sane govt would have done was to encourage the private sector especially SME's to flourish which the last administration was actively doing instead they made sure that many businesses closed, pushing the country into its first recession in 30 yrs (also during the military tenure of this same despot) then blaming their ineptitude on phantoms. Una go soon wake up for this country sha

Useless government

Honestly, i see no hope with this buhari led govt. They have'nt done anything about the promises they made during campaigns and now they are making more promises for 2017. How low can these people sink? My heart goes to my fellow wailers that may be affected by this.

but they can employ buari's children n relatives in cbn n firs through d window. kwantinew.

But they can employ kids of APC Stalwarts in CBN,NNPC & FIRS shey?

Why ? Was this not the woman reported to have said recession is just a word few months back. But now she is saying it has become a sentence, abi. mumu minister.

Mrs adeoson u mean the fg can't employ sons and daughters of nobodies not dambazau's children, just try and be honest with nigerians

chinjo:
Always giving Nigerians reasons why they can't perform. During previous administration's, what we had was underemployment, people wanting better pay and condition of service but what we have now is total unemployment. People loosing their jobs on a daily basis. The next thing this government will come up with is retrenchment. The good thing is that even the zombies are going to be affected but guess what? they will still be shouting sai Buhari.

my problem is the wailers that will be affected by this. Zombie can burn in hell for all i care.

Zombies and afonjas dont care even with empty and dry pockets and alarming hungry stomachs..
promise and fail evil govt..zombie supporters

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SMH... This country has gone bananas... All thanks to the Afonjos, una see o


Make they close down FG... Stupid

I am not in support of a bloated civil service, it makes no sense. Government at all level should empower the people to have a vibrant private sector driven economy!

If you put her words into perspective, she makes a whole lot of sense.

Read her words and tell me what is wrong with them

Even when the economy was growing, when GDP was eight and nine, we had a massive unemployment problem especially our graduates. I’m sure most of us know that graduates stayed for up to ten years without jobs and the only sector that was really creating jobs was government and government now, has now reached its limit, that a 165 billion amount, I don’t think government can reasonably employ any more people so we have to develop our private sector and to do that, we need infrastructures.

Every new day comes wit a new excuse.
even tomorrow has its own loading

i didnt take d APC serious during d campaigns because their promises showed dey knew nothin about Nigeria or were pretending nt to kno dat dia promises wia dead on arrival. its a pity dat Nigerians bliv dis govt has a magic wand to deliver progress

I Taya ooo

Too many illiterates on this thread.

Oh oh It's now official, all the Scam like N-power, Yuboss, the current recruitment into FCSC.... etc are all Scam .
And Lai Mohammed has already included the statistics of generating over 3 millions jobs for youths by this government as one of their achievements.

I know we have been scammed big time, our prayer now should be : God give us a Babangida that will take us out of this scam.

But that was the promise made by Buhari.

I thought they promised nigerians 2million jobs, now they just realised they can't employ again...

Propaganda and bogus campaign promises can win you elections but it will never deliver the required result (which is performance)...

Nigerians welcome to the scam called APC...SMH

All the talk ended with oil money. Nonsense.

SillyMods:
If you put her words into perspective, she makes a whole lot of sense.

Read her words and tell me what is wrong with them

She doesn't get it graduate unemployment is the smallest part of our unemployment problems. Unskilled and semi skilled lower level uneducated nigerians are 90% of the problem.

This woman should please focus on reviving the economy and leave the propaganda and lies for Liar Mohammed