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ThisDay Newspaper Online Publications, September 12, 2014, reports the position and view of the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, with regards to the composition of the members of the newly inaugurated Presidential Jobs Board. It decries the exclusion of the “real” private sector from the Presidential Jobs Board. But it was reported yesterday by ThisDay that the President said:  “We have carefully constituted the Jobs Board to include key members of the public and private sector , (and) this is to ensure that the Board can draw on the cross expertise of people in government as well as those in private enterprises.” In the statement above, it is clear that representatives from the private sector are included in the Board as members. However, it seems that NECA has a different view and definition of the private sector from the government’s. NECA emphasizes on the “REAL” private sector which it describes as “Grassroots enterprises and entreprene...

  Another attempt among many to deal with the increasing rate of unemployment and its consequences in Nigeria has prompted the Federal government to set up a Presidential Job Board yesterday, September 10, 2014. The actual reason for this new development could be deduced from the comment of the President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, which reads: “There is a difference between training people to acquire skills and job creation.”  This means that the Presidential Job Board is created to find and bridge the missing link between “training people to acquire skills and job creation”.  The President also observed that, “…over a period (now), agencies of government are more interested in training”, and hence the need to redirect effort towards creating jobs for the unemployed.  When I read the article bearing this information from a number of articles in the ThisDay Newspaper online publications, Thursday, September 11, 2014, so many thoughts came t...