{"id":44862,"date":"2015-12-14T05:06:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T04:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=44862"},"modified":"2015-12-14T05:06:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T04:06:44","slug":"job-creation-remains-one-of-the-highest-priorities-of-our-change-agenda-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/job-creation-remains-one-of-the-highest-priorities-of-our-change-agenda-buhari\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Creation Remains One Of The Highest Priorities Of Our Change Agenda &#8211; Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari declared\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_569544708\">Saturday<\/span>\u00a0in Kaduna that job creation<br \/>\nwill remain one of the topmost priorities of his administration\u2019s economic<br \/>\nagenda because it was vital for the attainment of the Federal Government\u2019s<br \/>\nother objectives of improved security and poverty reduction.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the 2nd Convocation ceremony of the Kaduna State University<br \/>\nwhich had \u201cEntrepreneurship for Development\u201d as its theme, President<br \/>\nBuhari pledged that his administration will give the fullest possible<br \/>\nsupport to all efforts to create more jobs through the reorientation of<br \/>\nNigerian youth towards an entrepreneurial mindset.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis administration will ensure that youths in the country are gainfully<br \/>\nemployed and youth restiveness curtailed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the focal points of this administration is job creation. Job<br \/>\ncreation will help in the achievement of other objectives of the<br \/>\ngovernment such as poverty reduction and security which are some of the<br \/>\nchallenges this administration is confronted with. Insecurity cannot be<br \/>\ndivorced from unemployment and poverty because an idle mind, they say, is<br \/>\nthe devil\u2019s workshop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith declining internally generated revenue and over dependence on the<br \/>\nequally declining oil revenues, there is need to seek other ways of<br \/>\ndiversifying the economy so as to boost revenue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the ways we can achieve this is through the reorientation of our<br \/>\nyouths towards an entrepreneurial mindset. We must therefore promote and<br \/>\nenhance the teaching and learning of entrepreneurial skills in all schools<br \/>\nand tertiary institutions, thereby exposing our youth to the basics and<br \/>\nrudiments of starting and sustaining their own businesses,\u201d President<br \/>\nBuhari told the gathering.<\/p>\n<p>The President said that to encourage and assist Nigerian youth to move<br \/>\nfrom being job seekers to job creators, his administration will sustain<br \/>\nand improve ongoing programmes by the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Small<br \/>\nand Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, the Bank of<br \/>\nIndustry, the Bank of Agriculture and other Federal agencies to grant them<br \/>\nstart-up loans at concessionary rates.<\/p>\n<p>President Buhari urged the Nigerian private sector to also do more to<br \/>\nsupport government\u2019s efforts to boost youth entrepreneurship and the<br \/>\ndevelopment of micro, small and medium scale enterprises in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He thanked the University for conferring\u00a0 \u00a0an honourary doctorate degree<br \/>\nof letters on him.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari declared\u00a0Saturday\u00a0in Kaduna that job creation will remain one of the topmost priorities of his administration\u2019s economic agenda because it was vital for the attainment of the Federal&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Job Creation Remains One Of The Highest Priorities Of Our Change Agenda - Buhari - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/job-creation-remains-one-of-the-highest-priorities-of-our-change-agenda-buhari\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Job Creation Remains One Of The Highest Priorities Of Our Change Agenda - Buhari - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Muhammadu Buhari declared\u00a0Saturday\u00a0in Kaduna that job creation will remain one of the topmost priorities of his administration\u2019s economic agenda because it was vital for the attainment of the Federal&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/job-creation-remains-one-of-the-highest-priorities-of-our-change-agenda-buhari\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-12-14T04:06:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/buhari-hon.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"397\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/job-creation-remains-one-of-the-highest-priorities-of-our-change-agenda-buhari\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/job-creation-remains-one-of-the-highest-priorities-of-our-change-agenda-buhari\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"Job Creation Remains One Of The Highest Priorities Of Our Change Agenda &#8211; 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