The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) has revealed that it created a total of 90,160 jobs for unemployed youths in the first quarter of 2025. The agency also said it supported more than 116,000 entrepreneurs nationwide with vital resources, including training, access to finance and markets, and the distribution of work tools. It attributed the milestone …

Only 900 people will be picked from the list of more than 15,000 who applied for recruitment into the Oyo state civil service, an official said on Friday in Ibadan. The Oyo State Civil Service Commission chairman, Kamoru Aderibigbe, told journalists that the ongoing recruitment process would see the applicants sitting for a computer-based test between Monday and Thursday. “The …

No fewer than 33,955 applicants have applied to fill the advertised 2,208 job vacancies in the Cross River State civil service. In a document obtained by NAN, the state Civil Service Commission shortlisted 956 from the total number of applicants. The document dated 19 November, by the Chairman of the Commission, Sir Maurice Effiwatt, showed that the number of applications …

Public transportation is one of the most critical sectors of a fully urbanised city like Lagos. What the city lacks in land mass it compensates with the huge number of residents – such that today, the state is home to over 20 million people of different backgrounds and heritage. Seeing that people will most likely get stuck in traffic thereby …

The Programme Director and Chief Executive of the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Initiatives, Michael Oluwagbemi, has announced the Federal Government’s plan to target over 25,000 jobs and $2.5 billion worth of investment by 2027. Oluwagbemi made this known during the Presidential CNG stakeholders’ engagement workshop held at BOVAS Auto-Gas filing stations, Ajibode Bus-Stop in Ibadan, Oyo State capital on …

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mallam Mohammed Idris, on Wednesday, eased fear of job losses after the implementation of the Stephen Oronsaye report. Idris disclosed this in a statement signed by his media aide, Mr. Rabiu Ibrahim on Wednesday. Twelve years after it received the report, the Federal Government, on Monday, approved the implementation of some of its …

The European Union (EU) and the Dutch government have pledged to support Nigeria’s job creation push towards tackling poverty and irregular migration, the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation said yesterday. It was learnt that that the commitment followed a meeting at The Hague, The Netherlands, between top representatives of Federal Government and EU officials. Present were the Minister …

President Bola Tinubu has expressed the willingness of the Federal Government of Nigeria to support global tech giant, Google Incorporated, to create one million digital jobs in Nigeria. During the visit of Google Global Vice President, Mr. Richard Gingras to his office at the State House on Friday evening, the President told the his guest that Nigeria had creative and …