774,000 Job Program Takes Off Tuesday-Keyamo,

774,000 Job Program Takes Off Tuesday – Festus Keyamo

iexclusive News Nigeria reports that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the take-off of the Special Public Works Program engaging 774,000 unemployed itinerant Nigerians to begin nationwide tomorrow, Tuesday.

Minister of State for Labor and Employment, Festus Keyamo, announced this on his verified tweeter handle on Sunday night.

The minister said in the tweet that all NDE state structures are already in top gear for the take-off ceremonies.

This is coming after several postponements by the federal government.

See the tweet below:

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the take off of the Special Public Works Programme (engaging 774,000 unemployed itinerant Nigerians) to begin nationwide on Tuesday, January 5th, 2021. All NDE state structures are already in top gear for the take-off ceremonies. pic.twitter.com/BZrYaxOQrE

— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) January 3, 2021

This online news medium gathered that each of the 774,000 workers will earn N20,000 monthly for three months duration of the job, amounting to about N46.44 billion.

iexclusive News Nigeria recalls that the program is designed to employ 1,000 Nigerians from each of the 774 local government areas in the country was initially scheduled for launch on October 1, last year but it ran into hitches following the power play between Keyamo and the Director-General, National Directorate of Employment, Nasir Ladan, who was sacked last month.

Also, the ministers are expected to launch the scheme in their respective states in collaboration with the governors.