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July 25, 2026 No Responses

Nigeria’s $2b Renewable Energy Investment Yields Only 76,000 Jobs, REA Flags Local Capacity Gap

Dr. Abba Aliyu, Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), has disclosed that Nigeria’s renewable energy workforce participation remains significantly low, with the sector generating only about 70,000 jobs despite attracting over $2 billion in cumulative investment, compared to...

March 15, 2025 No Responses

Porsche To Cut 3,900 Jobs

Porsche is planning to reduce its workforce by approximately 3,900 positions in an effort to improve profitability. The German luxury carmaker will reduce its workforce by around 1,900 positions by 2029, leveraging demographic changes, natural turnover, and a ...

January 28, 2025 No Responses

Kano Targets 63,360 Garment Industry Jobs

The Governor of Kano State, Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, has announced plans to create 63,360 jobs for youths in the garment industry annually, starting from 2025. Director General of Media and Publicity, Kano Government House, Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, explaine...

August 31, 2024 No Responses

Shell To Cut Hundreds Of Jobs

British energy giant Shell plans to cut hundreds of jobs from its oil and gas exploration division as part of a cost-cutting program announced last year, a person familiar with the matter said Friday. The cuts will affect two units...

October 9, 2023 No Responses

Tinubu Pledges 500,000 Jobs As Ajaokuta Steel Nears Completion

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu declared on Sunday that with the hitherto abandoned Ajaokuta Steel Complex now nearing completion, the project will have the capacity to employ 500,000 Nigerians once designated as a free trade zone. The President further promised t...

December 30, 2022 No Responses

Ajaokuta Steel To Generate $1.6b, 500,000 Jobs

Ajaokuta Steel Complex will generate $1.6b annually and provide 500,000 jobs for Nigerian youths, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. Malam Garba Shehu, the Presidential spokesperson in a statement, explained aid that Buhari said this at the Palace of t...

October 6, 2022 No Responses

Employment Clinic Implores Maritime Operators On One Million Jobs Offer

To reduce unemployment in Nigeria, an advocacy group, Employment Clinic on Tuesday organised a stakeholders meeting where government agencies and private investors operating in the nations maritime industry brainstormed with thousands of unemployed youths to s...

October 4, 2022 No Responses

Govt, Stakeholders Explain Agenda For One Million Jobs In Maritime Sector

Determined to reduce unemployment in the country, industry stakeholders and top government officials will on Tuesday meet to discuss how to create one million jobs in the maritime sector for youths within one year. The event, being initiated by the...

August 10, 2022 No Responses

Badagry Seaport Project To Create 250,000 Jobs

The Badagry Port Development Ltd (BPDL), promoters of the newly approved Badagry Deep Seaport project, says the project under a Private-Public Partnership will create 250,000 jobs. In a statement on Tuesday, Mr Oludele James Clinton, the Project Manager,...

June 21, 2022 No Responses

Buhari To Private Sector: Reinvest Profit On Job Creation

President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to members of the organised private sector to reinvest their profits on creation and retention of jobs. Buhari made the appeal while declaring open the maiden Nigeria Employers’ Summit of the Nigeria Employers’...

May 14, 2022 No Responses

A’Ibom Unveils Coconut Oil Refinery, Targets 3,000 Jobs

The Akwa Ibom State Government has commissioned what its described as Africa’s first digital coconut oil refinery Commissioning the factory located in Ikot Akpan Okop village in Mkpat Enin Local Government Area on Friday, former G...

April 22, 2022 No Responses

Equiano Subsea Cable Lands In Nigeria, To Create 1.6m Jobs

Google and the West India Ocean Cable Company(WIOCC) on Thursday announced the landing of Equiano subsea cable in Lagos. Mrs Juliet Ehimuan Director, West Africa, Google, said at a ceremony to mark the landing of Equiano, that it would create...

February 3, 2022 No Responses

Nestle To Cut 474 Jobs, Close Factory

Nestle has announced its confectionery factory in Newcastle is to shut with the loss of 474 jobs. The global food manufacturer said it was holding talks with employees at the Fawdon plant but the focus was now on closing it...

February 7, 2021 No Responses

Hyundai Reiterates Commitment To Protect Jobs

The management of Hyundai Motor will reshore some of its manufacturing operations in the United States to help maintain work for its employees at home, its union said on Saturday.Under an agreement reached between the company and the union, production...