Muhammadu Dingyadi, Minister Of Labour And Employment

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Muhammadu Dingyadi, has clarified that his ministry’s role does not include providing jobs for Nigerians.

A revelation he made at the annual conference of the Federal Capital Territory chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations in Abuja on Thursday.

While acknowledging Nigeria’s large youth population and the pressing need for employment, Dingyadi emphasized that job creation is not within his ministry’s mandate.

Instead, he stated that their primary responsibility is to create an enabling environment for employment opportunities.

He said, “You will agree with me that the mandate of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment is never to give employment to people.

“However, it is at the heart of the Renewed Hope Agenda, particularly as it relates to job creation, sustained and inclusive investment, as well as the promotion of enhanced productivity for improved service delivery.

“As you are aware, the ministry is not there to provide employment, because the former minister of youths and sports (Sunday Dare), before he left, was asking me to give him jobs. I said we only create the environment for jobs. We don’t give jobs.

“Mr President is poised and committed to providing the requisite leadership and driving initiatives geared towards Nigeria’s economic recovery and transformation.

“This is evident in the recent successful negotiation of a new minimum wage for Nigerian workers, and the deliberate efforts towards sustainable strategic investments in human capital, infrastructure, innovation and institutional reforms.”

In his remarks, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public Communications, Sunday Dare, urged Nigerians to remain patient with President Bola Tinubu’s administration amidst the nation’s current economic challenges.

He said, “My job and that of the presidential media team is to try and win Nigerians over to understand why this is taking place.

“Beyond that, we are in the process of reforms covering several sectors, driven largely by the eight-point agenda of President Bola Tinubu. He is a President who has chosen the road less travelled.

“Very often, it is the path that has challenges, very difficult but most certainly leads to the desired destination. The reforms in the fiscal and monetary, oil, manufacturing, power and almost 10 other sectors are ongoing. We are beginning to see the benefits of these reforms.

“We also have a President who believes failure to take one stitch now will mean we are going to take nine stitches down the road. But I believe one stitch now is better.

“He is also a President who is mindful of the difficulties the people are going through and is working arduously to provide solutions.”

President of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), Dr. Ike Neliaku in his address, stressed the importance of improving Nigeria’s international image to attract foreign investment.

He said, “Public Relations builds and promotes reputation. And we are saying that we must take the reputation of our nation seriously.

“It is only when your reputation is high that you can get investors to come in and invest in the economy.

“If your economy does not have respect for the way things ought to be done, nobody will invest in such an economy.”

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