19,210 get N1.6b Kwara, World Bank jobs
KWARA State Government in collaboration with the World Bank has employed 18,000 poor and vulnerable persons under the second phase of the Youth Empowerment and Social Support Operations scheme.
Head, Work Fare Projection Implementation Unit, YESSO, Shamsudeen Aregbe gave the figures to reporters yesterday in Ilorin, the state capital, during the grand finale of the validation and orientation programme for the beneficiaries. “The state’s contribution shall be in the area of provision of human capital, structures that will house the unit and provision of tools and kits that the beneficiaries will be using in the course of their engagement on the programme,” he said.Aregbe said the scheme would last for a period of 12 months, commencing from July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020.
He said: “They will work for four hours in a day and four days in a week, excepting weekends and public holidays.
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