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 succeeded 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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