HOUSE OF REP REJECTS BILL FOR MONETARY INCENTIVE FOR UNEMPLYED GRADUATES IN THE4 COUNTRY

 

Speaker House of Representative Aminu Tambawal

 Nigeria's House of Representatives has rejected a bill, which sought to make provisions for monetary incentives for unemployed graduates in the country. The proposed legislation, titled: “A Bill for an Act to amend the National Directorate of Employment Act, Cap. N28 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004, by creating specific functions and objectives for the Directorate to specifically cater for unemployed graduates of tertiary institutions,” failed to scale second reading when it was put to vote by the Speaker, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal.

Sponsor of the bill, Arua Arunsi, had, during his submission on the floor, said the objective of the bill was to design implementation programmes to combat mass unemployment of graduates that are between the ages of 18 to 35 years. According to him, the bill also seeks to pay certain amount of allowances to the unemployed graduates in Nigeria.

Meanwhile a youth activist and Africa's representative in the world assembly of youth Ambassador Marvin Yobana on a radio program monitored in Abuja, called for the immediate enactment of a National Youth Development Act


Yobana emphasized that its the only way to stop youth restiveness in Nigeria