We’ll save 5m jobs from post COVID-19 economic plans—FG

The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Richard Adeniyi Adebayo, has said that the federal government would create and save no fewer than five million jobs from its post-COVID-19 economic recovery plans.

The minister revealed that plans were underway to save about 1.4 million jobs of Nigerians, with 40 percent of them in female-owned MSMEs and 10 percent in businesses belonging to people with special needs.

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Adebayo disclosed this in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr Julius Toba-Jegede.

He noted that the move is part of his ministry’s input in playing a leading role in the federal government’s delivery of real sector interventions of its economic sustainability plan in the wake of the global pandemic.