The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved a new employment programme for the Nigerian Youth, Igbere TV reports.
Igbere TV gathered that the scheme is targeted at creating employments for 60,000 Nigerian youth between the ages of 18 to 25.
Minister of Budget and Planning, Senator Udo Udoma disclosed this on Wednesday while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the weekly FEC meeting.
The meeting, Igbere TV learnt, was presided by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Udoma said the new scheme is called the N-Power Knowledge Multi-track youth empowerment programme.
He said under the scheme, 12,000 unemployed or under-employed graduates aged 18-25 yrs will be trained and given relevant devices afterwards.
Udoma also said the training will be on mobile computing and commonly used electronic devices.
Findings by Igbere TV revealed that a total of N5.5 billion was approved for the programme.
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