PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has directed Minister of State for Labour and Employment Festus Keyamo to proceed with the recruitment of 774,000 youths.
They are to undertake public works across the 774 local government areas from where 1,000 each are to be hired.
Each participant is to be paid N20,000 monthly for the three-month duration of the programme designed to begin in October.
There is N520 billion in the 2020 budget to take care of the programme.
But the selection process has pitted the minister against the National Assembly.
Senate President Ahmed Lawan called for a halt to the process after the stormy session at the joint Senate/House of Representatives Committee meeting with Keyamo on June 30.
Committee members walked Keyamo out of the session after the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) Director-General Nasir Ladan, said he did not know about other members of the 20-man selection committee except for the eight statutory members.
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