Sambo Announces 21million Job Generation Target by 2025
SAMBO, TRANSPORT MINISTER
*Stresses FG’s plan to lift 35m out of poverty
By Our Reporter
The Minister Of Transportation, Muazu Jaji Sambo has said that the federal government has concluded plans to create as much as 21 million jobs by 2025.
Sambo also said that the government’s determination is to lift at least 35million Nigerians out of poverty.
The Minister who spoke during the 2022 Ministerial Retreat held at Akwa Ibom said the transport sector has hit the road running to achieve government’s target of lifting 100 million people outof poverty in 10 years.
He pointed out a number infrastructure gaps in the sector, adding that this was what led to the development of the National Development Plans; Medium-Term Development Plans 2021-2025 as well as a Long-Term Plan called the Nigeria Agenda 2050.
He explained that this will lead to massive investment in infrastructure to “ensure macroeconomic stability, enhance the investment environment, improve living conditions and implement climate change mitigation”.
The plan according to him, will generate 21 million full-time jobs and lift 35 Million people out of poverty by 2025, adding that this will set the stage to achieve government’s commitment to lift many Nigerians out of poverty.
He added that the plans aim at “accelerating the growth of the transportation sector in the country with a strategic Medium-Term Vision Statement, which is to have an effective, intermodal, safe, reliable, affordable and sustainable Transportation system contributing positively to the growth of the Nigerian economy.”
He identified policy thrusts to drive the vision as “Improving safety and transportation security, Collaboration and synergy amongst transportation stakeholders”.
Part of the policy thrusts, he said, include “Professionalism and Human Capacity Building, Strengthening institutional governance and regulation and Multi-modal infrastructural development”.
Sambo disclosed that five high-level strategic goals have been selected to ensure achievement of the policy thrusts in the areas of
“Safe and Secure Transportation, Drive Economic Development, Facilitate Connectivity (Intermodal and Multimodal), Develop Local Capacity (Professionalism) and Ensure Sustainability”.
He said, “I am well aware that you are all conversant with these high-level goals, as they have become a blueprint for tracking performance towards the delivery of our mandates, addressing the bottlenecks militating against the growth of the Transportation Sector and stimulating domestic growth.
“The key Policy Initiatives and Reform Programmes for the Sector are; Implementation of the 25 year Railway Modernization Programme, the Ports Master Plan and Inland Waterways Transportation Development.
“Others are; The Nigerian Transportation Master-plan (NTM),Tarrifs and costs, Creation of Private Sector led National fleet and Manpower capacity development.”
By Our Reporter
The Minister Of Transportation, Muazu Jaji Sambo has said that the federal government has concluded plans to create as much as 21 million jobs by 2025.
Sambo also said that the government’s determination is to lift at least 35million Nigerians out of poverty.
The Minister who spoke during the 2022 Ministerial Retreat held at Akwa Ibom said the transport sector has hit the road running to achieve government’s target of lifting 100 million people outof poverty in 10 years.
He pointed out a number infrastructure gaps in the sector, adding that this was what led to the development of the National Development Plans; Medium-Term Development Plans 2021-2025 as well as a Long-Term Plan called the Nigeria Agenda 2050.
He explained that this will lead to massive investment in infrastructure to “ensure macroeconomic stability, enhance the investment environment, improve living conditions and implement climate change mitigation”.
The plan according to him, will generate 21 million full-time jobs and lift 35 Million people out of poverty by 2025, adding that this will set the stage to achieve government’s commitment to lift many Nigerians out of poverty.
He added that the plans aim at “accelerating the growth of the transportation sector in the country with a strategic Medium-Term Vision Statement, which is to have an effective, intermodal, safe, reliable, affordable and sustainable Transportation system contributing positively to the growth of the Nigerian economy.”
He identified policy thrusts to drive the vision as “Improving safety and transportation security, Collaboration and synergy amongst transportation stakeholders”.
Part of the policy thrusts, he said, include “Professionalism and Human Capacity Building, Strengthening institutional governance and regulation and Multi-modal infrastructural development”.
Sambo disclosed that five high-level strategic goals have been selected to ensure achievement of the policy thrusts in the areas of
“Safe and Secure Transportation, Drive Economic Development, Facilitate Connectivity (Intermodal and Multimodal), Develop Local Capacity (Professionalism) and Ensure Sustainability”.
He said, “I am well aware that you are all conversant with these high-level goals, as they have become a blueprint for tracking performance towards the delivery of our mandates, addressing the bottlenecks militating against the growth of the Transportation Sector and stimulating domestic growth.
“The key Policy Initiatives and Reform Programmes for the Sector are; Implementation of the 25 year Railway Modernization Programme, the Ports Master Plan and Inland Waterways Transportation Development.
“Others are; The Nigerian Transportation Master-plan (NTM),Tarrifs and costs, Creation of Private Sector led National fleet and Manpower capacity development.”
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