Unemployed graduates to earn monthly N19,800 allowance

The unemployed graduates in Nigeria may soon be smiling to
banks if the recommendation of one of the committees at the
ongoing National Conference is accepted at the plenary and by
the Federal Government.
According to report the conference’s Committee on Law,
Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Reform had recommended that
each unemployed graduate should be paid a monthly allowance
equivalent to the allowance of members of the National Youth
Service Corps.

Presently, the federal government pays each corps member a
monthly allowance of N19,800
A member of the committee said the recommendation was one
of the ways the committee members felt that crime could be
reduced in the country.
Apart from that, the source said the members felt that the
action would force the federal government to be alive to its
responsibility of providing welfare to its citizens.
The committee member, who asked not to be named, said, “The
recommendation is our own way of finding solutions to the rising
wave of crime in the country and to also force the government
to do the needful for the increasing number of unemployed
graduates in the country.
“We have done our part and it is left for the delegates to either
reject or accept it at plenary.”
Meanwhile, after three weeks of intensive committee work, the
plenary session of the National Conference resumes on Monday
(today) in Abuja with commencement of the consideration of
reports of the 20 committees assigned to handle critical national
issues.
While some of the committees had already submitted signed
copies of their reports with agreed-upon recommendations to
the conference secretariat for distribution to delegates, others,
as at Sunday, were still busy with the collation of their final
reports.
It would be recalled that at specific times within the three
weeks, the committees’ leadership met with the conference
management, comprising the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, the
Secretary and the three assistant secretaries to rub minds on
certain issues to facilitate their work.
It was during one of those meetings that the issue of time
extension for committees, from two to three weeks, was
discussed, agreed upon and implemented in view of the workload
assigned each of the committees and the various national public
holidays that followed.
Submission of Committee Reports to the Conference is in line
with Order 12(d-e) of the National Conference Procedure
Rules 2014, which states that, “Each Committee shall submit to
the Conference the report of its activities.