By Emma Ujah
Determined to check the high and growing rate of unemployment across the nation, the Federal Government is to set up a private sector committee on job creation.

Finance Minister and Chairman of the National Economic Management Team, Mr Olusegun Aganga who has marked unemployment as one of his cardinal areas of intervention, announced this in Abuja yesterday.

The main objective of the committee is to work with the Federal Government to develop an Action Plan that will encompass practical and specific interventions for ensuring increased job creation in the country.

This plan will leverage on existing reports on employment generation in Nigeria and make practical recommendations based on what other countries including developed, emerging and developing countries have done to ensure increased job creation, with a view to developing a pool of possible policy interventions and incentives that will create an environment that is conducive for job creation.

The committee, to be inaugurated on Monday July 12, 2010, has six weeks to submit its report.