By Ebitonye Akpodigha

The Federal Government has announced on Tuesday that the implementation of its Social Investment Programmes would commence before the end of this month.

This, according to a statement issued in Abuja by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the Vice President, Mr Laolu Akande, is in fulfilment of the government’s campaign promises.

Mr Akande noted that the Vice President, Mr Yemi Osinbajo, confirmed that implementation plans for the effective commencement of a number of the Social Investment programmes of the Buhari presidency has reached advanced stages as the selection of the first 200,000 unemployed graduates to get jobs is now being completed.

According to the statement, Mr Osinbajo made this known while fielding questions in an interview with a small group of radio journalists and producers at the Presidential Villa.

“We expect that before the end of the month, we will engage 200,000 out of the 500,000 unemployed graduates the Buhari administration plans to hire in the N-Power jobs programme.

“The direct government jobs are meant to keep these young people occupied, pay them some amount of money and also give them a device, which will also help them to learn several skills that they can develop as time goes on.

“We expect that before the end of this month, we should have engaged 200,000 of them and we are hoping that before the end of the year we should have engaged more,” the statement quoted Mr Osinbajo as saying.

The Vice President explained that on the Home-Grown School Feeding programme, this will kick off in several states by the end of October.

“Definitely before the end of this month, we expect that several states would have come on stream with their Home-grown School Feeding Programmes.

“This will energise agriculture in the different states because it is what you plant that you feed the children with, we will be hiring caterers, cooks, etc in each state because it will be Federal Government funded from Primaries 1-3 and the state governments hopefully would be able to cater for the other classes,” Osinbajo was further quoted as saying.

http://www.businesspost.ng/2016/10/11/fg-employ-200000-graduates-october/

Which October?

This short man

Actions, not words !

Am pro Apc but I think this govt is not sincere about this program cos why 200k out of 500k this is another avenue to please the north they should just keep shut or keep working

Good, whenever there is a will there will be a way

This October or the one after you leave office? Awon Omo ale oniro oshi!

Enough words; we need action plz mr president

wailing Dundee's food don land ooo

wailing Dundee's food don't land ooo

ok ooooo

On the News again, i hope this is not another propaganda to ease the tension of recession

October 2017 I guess

We need actions not word.

them still dey February?

10,000 police men sinnnncccceeeee!!! Anybody wey dey still believe these fraudsters is cur*sed

Please note, there is no salary, instead you collect one one bag of rice at month end.

DJEhimond:
This October or the one after you leave office? Awon Omo ale oniro oshi!

bro, why insulting them, didn't u vote for them?

When me neverreceive sms from npower . Na ghosts them employ ?

which of the October's? 2017, 2018,2019 cos am sure it is not this year october

which October?

Aren't we in October already?

Lol...funny people

Anyways since they're using "to" when we're already in October, I guess we can safely assume it's October 2019

'To' when will this change to 'has'

Though this administration is not perfect, If they can do these despite the recession and low crude oil prices, they deserve our applause. Other crude oil exporting countries like Venezuela are starving and even cutting cost, Saudi Arabia is not even left out, they are also cutting cost. Only myopic individuals will not see this government strive in ensuring things work.

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Buhari dis numbers you people are changing there is God oh ,this government is becoming so deceitful in their dealing doing all they can to buy time if it were posible for them i know say dem go postpone dis tin to 2019

Another Good News.

Charge your phone while eating chicken in KFC

http://www.nairadays.com/2016/10/12/charge-your-phone-while-eating-chicken-in-kfc/

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Oma307:

bro, why insulting them, didn't u vote for them?

Vote for who? I go provoke o

Employ as what na? thugs as oshiomhole did in benin then abi? APC idea of employment sef

DJEhimond:
Vote for who? I go provoke o

lol, abeg never provoke

“We expect that before the end of this month, we should have engaged 200,000 of them and we are hoping that before the end of the year we should have engaged more,” sounds abit conditional, we expect, we should, and we are hoping, all this phrases means like all things being equal all this should happen, if they do not happen, there will be excuses for them not happening...anyways October is almost half way, let's see the miracle coming ahead