A Pan-African group, ITM Services Limited, has called on the Federal Government to diversify its workplace to boost innovative products and services of employees in Nigeria. It also informed of the plan to partner with the Federal Government towards addressing the rising unemployment rate in Nigeria and the growing trend of mass movement of Nigerians…
The ITM Country Manager, Bukola Oyinlola-Anuwe, disclosed this in Abuja, during a breakfast meeting organized by the company with the theme: “Business Sustainability: Employment Diversity, Talent Management and Staff Retention.” “So now we are looking at all these things that we are going to start doing and start doing them differently and hopefully, this will curb the japa syndrome. Also, we looked at compensation, making sure people are compensated rightly.”
“We hope that all that was discussed today, a lot of the organizations that are present will take it and begin to apply it in their workplace and hopefully, we will get to see some changes coming up.” “This is not a fee-paying event. So we are going to be having more of these conferences where we would like to have government officials, especially the ones that are relevant to the sector, get involved and hopefully, they get to learn a lot of things. The participants have learnt a lot and we are hoping that our next session will have more government organizations participating and learning as well.
“Partnering with organizations such as ours, we can show you how to come up with employability skills programs for fresh graduates from the university, because even the United Nations employment report showed that there is a huge gap between what was the curriculum from the universities. Our education system is quite different from what employers are looking for.