The Ministry of Labour and Productivity has partnered the Zinox Group, an indigenous Information and Communications Technology firm, to build a database of the unemployed in the 774 Local Government Councils of the country.
This is coming on the heels of plans by the Federal Government to create jobs for the unemployed in the country.
The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr. Chris Ngige, had decried the fact that the ministry did not have credible database of unemployment in its various forms, according to a statement by the ministry on Monday.
The minister gave an assurance that the ministry would roll out its programme on employment generation once the 2016 budget was passed.
“By the end of the first quarter, we will hit the ground running,” Ngige was quoted as saying.
While citing Yudala that has employed 420 graduates as an example, the Chairman, Zinox Group, Dr. Leo Stan Ekeh, said that a database of the unemployed could be built without incurring expenses.
He explained that Zinox was looking forward to collaborating with the ministry to build a national database where the unemployed in the 774 LGs could register their profiles for easy access to employers.

Ekeh, who led the organisation’s management team on a courtesy visit to the ministry, added that the platform would create avenues for qualified graduates to be located for employment irrespective of where they resided.
He said that his decision to seek collaboration with the ministry was borne out of the need to reduce to the barest the unprecedented rate of unemployment in Nigeria.
Ekeh expressed worry that quite a lot of Nigerians were either unemployed or underemployed.
“The biggest challenge in the industry is to find qualified people; there are graduates but they don’t have skills; we think we can change things around,” he added.


Ngige reiterated the determination of the government to tackle unemployment, adding that the skill acquisition centres spread across the country would be resuscitated for the use of unemployed Nigerian youths to acquire relevant skills.
According to him, the ministry’s is ready to collaborate with any organisation willing to assist in creating jobs, stressing that working with Zinox would in no small measure lead to the creation of jobs for the teeming unemployed youths in the country.



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www.punchng.com/ministry-zinox-build-database-unemployed/

Joblessness Don make me enter the ftc record, baba please pickup my call

Great

Why can't we have a consolidated database as a country?

CBN is building theirs with the BVN.
NIMC is building theirs.
The telcos are building theirs.
Nigeria Immigration Service has theirs.

This might just be another avenue to siphon funds.

SMH

Slowly but surely.

Zinox all the way.

Partnering with zinox computers is a good way to start appreciating our indigenous companies..

Whatbare the practical indices for the unemployed and the underemployed detection . Because the two will always clash and lead to very bogus unemployment data. Anyway am optimistic that the whole exercise won't be a sham and the result will be adequately used.

that I guess would run into petabytes of data...

At last

A step in the right direction

Hmmm,itz gonna be cool if done sincerely

There is a realistic hope for the unemployed and under-employed youths in Nigeria, if they impliment the idea.



Ndi igbo na-ekwu si "amuo nwoke, ya buru nwoke";
Dr. Chris Ngige na-eme ihe ka nwoke.

A very welcome development. Am happy the FG is using a local company for this project.

[b]That's great. Make we know how far, I beg.[color=#006600][/color]

A sure way to dispense the 5k stipend

It wont be easy as promised... There will be so many ''GHOST Unemployed Youths'' and there will be loads of Scam...

Nigeria's got no database of whatsoever...

It's not all about building, it's all about maintaining it. Looking forward to hearing the amount budgeted for it...

ABEG! MAKE UNA DASH BUHARI LIKES JOR.. The man is making impact.

[b]That's great. Make we know how far, I beg.

another contract be dat ooo

Ppl should wait till they hear the cost of this project

ZINOX kwa!!!

How do you build a database without a data-center facility....Partner with the right guys man...wise up

If Innosson should get patronage like (Zinox A.G.I.P.)
Toyota will be a thing of the past on Nigerian roads.








ThefakeStan

The no of unemployed to be found in the database will be greater than the population of Nigeria.

Airforce1:
IN BUHARI I TRUST

Seeing is believing oooo....because anytin from APC now is fraud and lies.

mark2nv2002:
How do you build a database without a data-center facility....Partner with the right guys man...wise up

and why do you need a data center facility for that? Database can be hosted anywhere inasmuch they can secure it properly.

Database ahn!?

What happens when the unemployed gets a job 2 months after? Or would there be a link between employers and the unemployed database?

Was there supposed to have been round network among the NLC, NPC, NUC, NANS, INEC, and the Banks?

Speaking of Zinox Technology, if we had(or have, maybe) a working government, Zinox computers would have been our national carrier in the Banks, ministries, schools, hospitals and the likes. Also reminds me of Innoson vehicles. I don't wanna see Toyota as government cars no more. No more BMWs, Benz, Hyundai, Peugeot for govt officials.

I reserve my comment.

Airforce1:
IN BUHARI I TRUST

IN GOD I TRUST

Now everyone will claim to be unemployed, making the database invalid

Our5k!!! Can't wait for the monthly alert!!