Government’s reforms in other sectors have also opened up new opportunities for employment in the public sector. Reforms in the health sector have required the government to increase the number of health personnel in the State. This has led the government to employ 60 nurses and midwives, 20 doctors and 3 consultants.

Similarly, education sector reform had required the recruitment of teachers, especially in the core subjects along the line of the government’s education policy. Thus, government has employed 2500 teachers for the secondary schools under the Voluntary Teaching Scheme. Many of these are graduates of many years, who had been unemployed.

The need to strengthen the overall efficiency of the public service has led to the first major recruitment in the civil service in over two decades. In the competitive recruitment exercise of 2005, 150 young men and women with a minimum of first degree were recruited into the various cadres of the civil service.  

The government of Dr. Bukola Saraki, through a combination of creativity, innovation and drive has kept its promise to create jobs as a way of reducing poverty and creating wealth. Before Our Very Eyes, about 25, 000 jobs have been created in 3 years.

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