The Special Assistant to the Governor on Job Creation and Youth Empowerment, Mr. Biola Odetola, says the Bureau of Job Creation since its establishment has been playing a major role in identifying companies, big or Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs), that are able to recruit young ones.

Mr. Odetola, who disclosed this in his keynote address at the virtual training for members of staff of the Bureau, organised by the State Government, in partnership with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), said the Jobs Portal created by the present administration, in 2019 currently houses over 300 thousand quality profiles of unemployed youths.

He said capacity building was the first of three frameworks of the 2022-29 Action plan, noting that the training of the Bureau’s staff was aimed at creating a systematic and organisational diagnostic framework for the Public Employment Service Delivery (PES).   

 In her presentation, one of the trainers, from an international organisation, SG Ministeres Sociaux, Mrs. Nora Alleki, who spoke on the strengths the state has over others in the area of employment opportunities, explained that it has the highest number of Free Trade Zones in Nigeria, as it shares border with Bennin, which makes it access route to the expansive markets of the Economic Community of Free Trade Zones, (ECOWAS) with large job opportunities.

       In his contribution, the Director of Administration and Supplies in the Bureau, Mr. Dare Ogunjobi appreciated the organisers of the training, noting that it would improve the efficiency of the employment services, help in identifying companies, big or small and medium enterprises that are able to recruit unemployed youths and transmit knowledge to them.