The Federal Government will create more than 50,000 jobs through its ‘waste to wealth’ programme, Minister of Environment, Ms. Amina Mohammed has said. The government also plans to generate other jobs through the clean-up of Ogoniland in Niger Delta and the Great Green Wall project which would entail planting of several economic trees in 11 states, she added.

Mohammed spoke with Daily Trust in Lagos on the sidelines of a stakeholders’ meeting with Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN). She said the activities of her ministry were targeted towards empowering and creating jobs for the teeming unemployed youths.

She said though the Ogoni land clean-up was a long term project covering 20-25 years, it has already started. “In everything, there are jobs. If I am going to clean-up the Niger Delta, people from Ogoni land will benefit from jobs in that clean-up and they would be trained,” Mohammed stated.
“If we are going to look at the campaigns to take waste to wealth, plastics off the roads and that is going to create around 50, 000 jobs in the first instance. So jobs would be created as we go in every activity that we do,” she added.
The minister noted that the government will also curb the activities of illegal loggers, warning that if those involved were not checked, there may be no wood left in the country in the next 10 years.
Source: Daily Trust