7TH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY j<'FIRST SESSION NO.4 4 SENATE OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA NOTICE PAPER Tuesday 26th July, 2011 Wednesday, 27th July 20 II 1. Motion: (Un) employment Data and Creation of Job Centres in the Country: Sen. Hope Uzodinma (Imo West) Co-Sponsor: Sen. Ita S. J. Enang Sen. Emmanuel Paulker Sen. Barnabas Gamade Sen. Mohammed Ndume Sen. Ifeanyi A. Okowa Sen. Christopher Nwankwo Sen. Paulinus Igwe Sen. Sunny Ogbuoji Sen. Domingo Obende Sen. Ehigie Uzamere Sen. Gilbert Nnaji Sen. Ayogu Eze Sen. Philip Aduda Sen. Matthew Nwagwu Sen. Abubarkar Bagudu Sen. Joshua Dariye Sen. Victor Lar Sen. Kabir Marafa THE SENATE, NOTES that unemployment situation in the country has remained worrisome as the army of the unemployed has over the years continued to grow, without any way of knowing its exact size at any given time; TLlKl1IER notes that the absence of a database to determine the exact number of unemployed persons in . the country does not help National Economic Planning, particularly with respect to addressing the unemployment problem in the country; RECOGNIZING that the maintenance of datal statistics on unemployment for the country will greatly facilitate planning 'in both public and private sectors just as it will assist policy makers, researchers, development planners and the public in general; A WARE that the reactivation and or creation of job centres in the Thirty-Six (36) states of the federation and Abuja, and the 774 Local Government Areas will help in actualizing the goal of maintenance of a comprehensive and regularly updated database on the unemployed in the country in particular and the labour market in general; fULLY AWARE that the responsibility for maintaining this much needed database falls squarely on the shoulders of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity as it is its statutory duty to formulate and Implement employment policy including the generation and maintenance of datal statistics on unemployment for the country; INFORMED that a budgetary provision has been made in the 2011 budget under the public works programme of the federal government for the purpose of the Development of a National Unemployment Database and other related labour matters; PRINTED BY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PRESS, ABUJA ..