INTRODUCTION
There
are some vital issues that we have not failed to know and understand about the
topic under discussion. First and foremost, we have succeed in bringing into cognizance that one of the support
agencies which its role deals squarely on unemployment and underemployment in
Nigeria is National Directorate of Employment (NDE). It was established by the
federal Government in November 1986 which is solely dealing with menace of mass
unemployment in the country as it was stated in its four core programmes and it
was inaugurated on 30th of January, 1987.on the other hands , the
cooperative societies are not exempted, in so far that the both are promoting
the creation of employment opportunities for cooperators . co-operative itself cuts across every facet of social
,political and economic aspects. For instance, Nigeria Agricultural and cooperative
Bank (NACB) which was constituted in 1973 by the federal Government with an
initial capital of twelve million Naira ( N12m). In this direction of
cooperative societies in the agricultural sector with the provision of credit
facilities in furtherance , Nation
Directorate of Employment has the following cardinal objective to achieve
especially in generating employment. Ensuring that cooperators or job seekers
becomes entrepreneurial oriented and pay less attention on government paid
employment and thus resolving
drastically the high level of unemployment.
Before we round off, ascertaining policies
that have worked in addressing unemployment in Nigeria is rather difficult in
light of the incredibly high and rising unemployment rate and at least around
1.8million youth are entering the labour market every year (falusi,2014).
Different programmes have been introduced by various administrations over time
to address youth unemployment, which has been
an issue of significant public concern since the days of SAP. Infact,
youth unemployment become the focus of the social policy of the military
government that ruled Nigeria for much of its years as an independent nation.
The initial reaction of the government was to draft unemployed youth to public programmes such as operation feed
the Nation (O F N) and the directorate of Food , Road and Infrastructure
(DIFRRI), which provided immediate and direct job to participants interested in
Agriculture.
However,
with the transition to civilian rule in 1999, successive civilian
administrations including the current leadership have carried to refocus
unemployment programs, discontinuing many of the old programs, restructing some
of them and creating new ones. It should be noted that as a federation, public
policy on employment has made youth the primary constituency of concern.
Consequently,
certain institution arrangement and agencies have been established to promote
employment among youth. Three of the current and most prominent programs
include the subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment programme (sure-p ), the youth Enterprise With Innovation
in Nigeria (You-Win) and the Osun state Employment Scheme (O’Yes).among others.
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