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Recession: FCTA to create 10,000 jobs by 2020.

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In line with one of the cardinal policies of the present administration, which is job creation and poverty reduction, the FCT Administration said that one of its targets is to create 10,000 jobs by the year 2020.

Speaking during the closing ceremony of the entrepreneurship and skills development programme, organised by the administration in conjunction with the Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation in Abuja at the weekend, FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello said the gesture would reduce the high rate of unemployment and minimise the level of poverty in the territory.

According to him, “As an administration, our target is to create 10,000 jobs by the year 2020. In creating these jobs, we will support our people to generate wealth; thereby reducing the high rate of unemployment and minimizing the level of poverty in the territory.

“This stand is also in line with one of the cardinal policies of the government of our leader, President Muhammadu Buhari, which is Job creation and Poverty reduction.”

Represented by the managing director of the Abuja Enterprise Agency (AEA), Tukur Arabi, Bello also reiterated the commitment of the administration to improve the living standards of the residents of the territory by creating jobs and providing the desired enabling environment.

The minister who noted that the importance of the programme, stressed that empowering the citizens with relevant vocational skills would ensure that they gain technical know-how to operate their businesses and entrepreneurial skills.

The minister said that the training given by the facilitators whose in-depth knowledge in the various fields of entrepreneurships development have been imparted into the participants in the last two weeks will go a long way in making the beneficiaries to be productive in their respective trades.

Earlier in his remarks, the managing director of the Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, Dr. Shettima Aji–Ali, said the foundation was established in 2009 by friends, relations, associates and well-wishers of Sir Ahmadu Bello, the late Premier of the defunct Northern Region and Sardauna of Sokoto in collaboration with governments of the 19 northern states of Nigeria to promote the exemplary ideals and legacy of the late sage.

Dr. Aji–Ali on behalf of the board of trustees, advisory council and the management of the foundation, thanked the FCT minister for being one of the great supporters of the Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation and the smooth take off and success of this training.

No New Land Allocations For Now – FCT minister

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The Federal Capital Territory Administration has resolved not to allocate new plots of land until infrastructure was provided in new areas, The Minister of the FCT, Muhammad Bello, has said.

Bello said this when he received a delegation of the Catholic Community, led by the Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, on Wednesday in Abuja.

He said: “The present administration will not give new allocations either now or in the near future until such areas or districts are clearly provided with the best complements of infrastructure.”

The minister said the policy was not aimed at stifling development, but to ensure that development goes the way it should be.

He said: “That is by providing for the best possible infrastructure before allocations are made so that issues like land speculation or double allocation are discouraged.”

Bello, however, said lands earmarked for compensation for wrongs done or as part of amicable resolution of disputes were exempted from the arrangement, adding that the administration would give priority to these exceptions.

The minister further said the administration would be fair in the allocation of plots earmarked for religious worship centres in the Abuja Master Plan.

The Abuja Master Plan, he noted, made provision for the need of every sector in the society, stressing that plots meant for worship centres would be equitably allocated among all religions.

He said: “Despite the huge demand for land, this administration will try to ensure that plots meant for religious organisations are left for that purpose so that everybody is given a sense of belonging in the territory.

“The planners of Abuja have made plots available for religious bodies in all of the districts in the capital city and this administration intends to implement its land allocation policy based on this plan.

“I think this is standard practice.

“For every district, there are religious plots that cater for all the faiths.”

Bello urged religious bodies and other residents of the FCT to embrace out-of-court settlement of land-related disputes, to reduce the time expended in seeking resolutions at the courts, which retards development of the FCT.

Earlier, Onaiyekan had thanked the minister for encouraging the inter-religious seminar that afforded religious leaders in the FCT to rub minds.