APPRAISAL OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT LIGHTING UNEMPLOYMENT IN NIGERIA
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Based on the recommendations the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) was established on November 22, 1987 and it initial are programs were formally launched on 30th January, 1987 by the Chief General staff, Voce Admiral Augustus Archomu on behalf of the president and commander in Chief of the Armed force General Ibrahim Badamusi Babangida.
The president directed the new directorate to concentrate this effort mostly on unemployment, by the re-activation of public works promotion of self-employment, giving out loans to small scale business organization of artisan into co-operative and encouragement of culture of maintenance and repairs (Badamesi IB 1987). To ensure effective implementation, a Board of Director’s representing a cross section of all interest group from industry, agriculture, finance, labour and government was set up to define policy and supervise operations. There are some board setup towards fighting or eradicating unemployment in our country are include.
Special Public Works
National youth employment and vocational skill development and small scale organization and graduate employment it was aim at monitoring. Administrative and support personal, this enabling optimum use of resource and prompt response to the requirement of the public.
National youth employment and vocational skills development programmed.
The program emailed from the realization that majority of the unemployed youths were without productive and marketable skills in the light of this, the federal government in this strategy, the need to build necessary linkages between theory and practical skill acquisition centers is emphasized. Amarelle (1989) hence the following scheme were devised for skill acquisition.
School on Wheels (SOW)
The directorate has recognized that are few companies in the rural areas, capable of offering apprenticeship and therefore the danger of encouraging whom migration via the open apprenticeship scheme. This scheme involved taking full equipped mobile vocational training facilities to the rural areas. This scheme welds a pool of artisans who will becomes a cornerstone of rural employment and development school on wheel (sow) is rural version of national open apprenticeship (Nuns) and it is of shorter duration of about 3 months and the trainees of the scheme are aborted into NOAS proper. The list of trade available under sow are:
MODULE A : Mechanical Trade
” Auto Mechanic
“ Welding/Black Smiting
“ Penal beating/Fabrication
“ Motor Cycle/Bicycle repairs
MODULE B : Building Trade
” Carpentry/ Journey
“ Mason/Brick Laying
“ Plumbing/Pipe Fitting
“ Painting/Glazing
Resettlement (Loan) Scheme
In order to consolidate the gain of the vocational skill development programme especially national open apprenticeship scheme NDE introduced the resettlement scheme. Instead of the graduated trainees remaining unemployed, the scheme was created to assist successful trainees to start their own business apprenticeship two is an application for resettlement.