THE Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) has commenced partnership with the Organised Private Sector (OPS) in Nnewi, Anambra State to reduce the rate of unemployment in the country. This was made known recently by the Project Technical Adviser for community service, women and youths empowerment, Ifeanyi Odenigbo during an interaction at Nnewi between SURE-P officials and selected Nnewi-based industrialists and manufacturers. According to him the one-day interactive session was to sensitise the industrialists to key into the Graduate Internship Scheme (GIS) of SURE-P. He revealed that according to the package, about 50,000 unemployed graduates were expected to be empowered annually across the federation with quality work experience. He also revealed that the SURE-P would provide a group insurance cover for the period, and a monthly stipend of N25, 000.00 to each approved and certified beneficiary. They were meant to be attached to a company in their localities so as to remove the pressure of transportation from them. Odenigbo told the stakeholders that it was only the industries and organisations that were registered with SURE-P and other relevant governmental institutions that would participate. It is mandatory, he emphasised, for the interns to work within the standard working hours of the firm, organisation or institutions that request for their service. While commending the efforts of the federal government towards providing gainful employments to jobless youths, he claimed it was aimed at reducing crime and criminality in the nation. The Anambra South senatorial zone Coordinator of SURE-P, Ofili Nwosu said that about three thousand people were employed by SURE-P last year and that five thousand more would be empowered before the end of March in the area. Nwosu encouraged the industries in his zone to quickly rise up to take advantage of getting skilled and well-trained people work for them for free which he noted would enhance their productivity and profit margins. Emeka Nzewi who spoke on behalf of the Nnewi Chamber of Commerce commended SURE-P for the novel initiative.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:09:49 +0000
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