Nigeria’s Minister of Finance and coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,has urged President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari to continue with the YouWin project of President Goodluck Jonathan.
Speaking at a reception organised by Ndi-Igbo Youth Organisation in partnership with Voice of All Arewa Youth in Abuja on Monday, May 25, 2015, Okonjo-Iweala explained that the project has so far created 22,000 direct jobs and 88,000 indirect jobs and as such, should be an integral part of General Buhari’s administration.
She said: “My charge as minister was to create jobs. So, we set out to find out how many jobs that were needed because you cannot create jobs in a vacuum. You also realise that the bulk of the nation’s population is the youth, so, if you don’t factor them into any transformation, it is bound to fail.
“We realised that we needed to create 1.8 million jobs yearly to address the unemployment challenges.”
