{"id":302519,"date":"2021-01-11T23:12:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T22:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=302519"},"modified":"2021-01-11T23:15:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T22:15:27","slug":"774000-jobs-festus-keyamo-gives-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=302519","title":{"rendered":"774,000 jobs: Festus Keyamo gives update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Festus Keyamo, the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, has insisted that the 774,000 jobs are basically meant for everyday labourers to carry out community services.<br \/>\nKeyamo disclosed this in a tweet via his official Twitter handle on Monday.<br \/>\nHis tweet read: \u201cThe 774,000 jobs is basically for our everyday labourers to carry out community services.<br \/>\n\u201cIt would not be financially prudent if the Govt were to spend billions for expensive equipment for 3-month jobs, then spend millions again training our labourers on how to use these equipment.\u201d<br \/>\nKeyamo had last week revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the commencement of the Special Public Works Programme which would engage 774,000 unemployed Nigerians.<br \/>\nThe programme was designed to employ 1,000 Nigerians from each of the 774 Local Government Areas in Nigeria was initially scheduled for launch on October 1, 2020.<br \/>\nThe initiative ran into delays following the power play between Keyamo and the Director-General, National Directorate of Employment, Dr Nasiru Mohammed Ladan Argungu, who was sacked last year\u2019s December.<br \/>\nEvery one of the 774,000 workers will get N20,000 monthly for 3 months duration of the job.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-862740\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2021\/01\/774000-jobs-Festus-Keyamo-gives-update.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"148\"><br \/>\n774,000 jobs: Festus Keyamo gives update<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Festus Keyamo, the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, has insisted that the 774,000 jobs are basically meant for everyday labourers to carry out community services. Keyamo disclosed this in a tweet via his official Twitter handle on Monday. His tweet read: \u201cThe 774,000 jobs is basically for our everyday labourers to carry out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":302520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,5728,4797],"class_list":["post-302519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-festus-keyamo","tag-fg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/302520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}