The Government of United Kingdom has announced a new £70 million programme to create 100,000 jobs in Nigeria.
This was disclosed by the UK Minister of State for Africa, Harriett Baldwin on Wednesday.
She spoke during a business event as part of the activities for Prime Minister Theresa May’s visit to Nigeria on Wednesday.
NAN reports that Baldwin, who led a business delegation to the event, said that the programme would raise the income of three million people from the poorest parts of Nigeria.
The minister said that the event was celebrating the role of growing businesses and entrepreneurs and also highlighted the partnerships of both countries in the area of technological development.
She added that the delegation consisted of various UK businesses were willing to invest “the kind of capital that creates jobs”.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the Ministers of Finance and Power, Works and Housing, Kemi Adeosun and Babatunde Fashola respectively, attended the event.
Osinbajo said that the Federal Government was keen on driving technology development in the country in support of the government’s economic growth plan.
The vice president said there was the need to create the right environment for technology companies to thrive and further gave an assurance of the government’s commitment to support innovation in the country.
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*Hmmmm why are they suddenly so interested in Nigeria?
Good to know
ReplyDeleteTHEY should be interested o, the way our government is not interested in us, at least someone will care
DeleteYimu!!!
DeleteDouble yinmu！
DeleteTriple Yinmu!!!
DeleteStella is that d question you should be asking or how people around you can benifit from these jobs they r trying to create, afterall if our government were doing something to help create jobs we wont be needing their help
ReplyDeleteE go do you like film trick!!!
DeleteThat's a very valid question Stella asked. There people are slave masters! Don't you think they would like to create such job opportunities in the UK especially after the Brexit? Be wise!
DeleteThey are trying to "create" trade relations post brexit. By "create", i mean do not trust their intentions.
ReplyDeleteI very much agree with you. There is more to it than we know. They won't be doing such without getting nothing in return or for their gains. There is much more to this than we know.
DeleteSo true.
DeleteThere is a Price tag, nothing is ever FREE.
Nothing is free even in Freetown!
DeleteAll na wash! Oyibo will not invest where their interest is not protected. The more you look....
ReplyDeleteGood news.
ReplyDeleteThere is a Price tag, Stella, there always is.
ReplyDeleteLike asking us to Legalize homosexual？ Hmm.
DeleteWeather for their benefits or not i don't care as far is to create jobs for the unemployed fine by me
ReplyDeletewell let our government shine their eyes cause oyinbos way no pure at all
ReplyDeleteThe question that Stella asked is legit because we dont trust them.
ReplyDeleteFor the suspicious ones: has your suspicions made you any richer? As if you won’t jump in fact dive for it if the opportunity arises. Brexit ko, slave masters ni
ReplyDeleteA welcome development
ReplyDeleteBrexit naaa! SDK na u dey ask???
ReplyDeleteTheresa May should start by providing homes and then creating jobs for the thousands of rough-sleepers in the UK.
Stupid Britons! Na EU fit una!
All of a sudden they have remembered Nigeria and other former British colonies....shiorrr!
Like the prime minister of India told Theresa May, we want visa-free entry to the UK, nothing else.
Unfortunately, We are Africans, seen as senseless and with stupid leaders. I am afraid with the UK going down as a result of brexit they will turn to countries like Nigeria, threaten them into forceful trade relations and rip them off again, just like pre-independence.
Do you take Heineken? I can get you a chilled one.
DeleteShebi she just left SA? Africa is now looking like the next place to camp and our leaders are obviously not reading through the tiny letters that matters.
DeleteI'm only here cause I heard 'Heineken'😱😱
DeleteBrexit!!!!
ReplyDeleteNothing comes free.
I would have suggested making UK Visa free to Nigerians, but It would worsen the condition.
They have something to benefit already!!!
Hmmmmmmm
ReplyDeleteI dont trust THIS! Ruuuunnnnnn... What did that man sign? We will be in this country and have that man sign away Nigeria for free..
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