By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, ABUJA

The Federal Executive Council, on Monday, approved a new national policy on employment generation for the country.

Under the new policy, it will unfold new strategies to address the challenges of unemployment and poverty reduction and highlight economic opportunities for the productivity and employment of Nigerians.

Minister of Labour and Employment, Muhammad Dingyadi, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of a council meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The minister said, “My memo is just one, but it’s a very important memo to the Labour sector in general. This memo has to do with the fact that we have been able to get approval to implement it, reduce it, and then send it to our stakeholders, IPD, and the status of the policy, which is that this national policy on employment has been approved.

“Usually, because of this long span of time regarding the reality on the ground, the ministry decided to initiate the review of this national policy on employment so as to show the need to develop new strategies which will address challenges of unemployment, address poverty and create the economic opportunities for productive employment of Nigerians.

“In the next two or three weeks, we are going to the International Labour Organisation meeting in Geneva; we will be very proud to tell our colleagues in other parts of the world that we have been able to review the national employment policy.”