The Yobe Government has employed 3,196 youths into the state’s civil service in the last five years.
Alhaji Barma Shettima, the Commissioner for Youth, Sports and Social Development, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Damaturu on Friday.
He said that those employed during the Gov. Mai Mala Buni-led administration since 2019, were holders of degree, diploma and National Certificate of Education ( NCE).
Shettima listed the professions where youths were employed to include doctors, pharmacists, midwives, nurses and laboratory technicians.
The commissioner noted that the recruitment was to empower youths and minimise redundancy, crimes and other social vices in the state.
He said the governor had also appointed youths as chief executives of many government establishments, including the Yobe Scholarship Board, Yobe Microfinance Bank, Yobe Emergency Management Agency and the Yobe Information Technology Development Agency.
He explained that “many youths have also been trained and retrained in different trades such as cosmetology, modern methods of crop cultivation, animal production, among others.
