The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) on Thursday advised the Federal Government and the newly appointed Ministers to unite and tackle the challenges confronting businesses and hindering employment of youths.
Mr Timothy Olawale, the Director-General of NECA, made the appeal while speaking with newsmen in Lagos on the inauguration of the new Federal Executive Council by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday.
Olawale congratulated the newly appointed ministers while describing the appointments as a call to urgent national service.
“This appointment is a call to national service as the nation is faced with dire challenges, it needs urgent attention, the task ahead of the ministers requires commitment, focus and determination.
“The new ministers need to be proactive, consultative and facilitators of economic growth and national development,” the director-general said.
He said the issues confronting the nation required that government and all stakeholders joined hands in navigating the ship of state away from the perennial challenges facing businesses and the high youths unemployment.
According to him, the organised businesses remains the engine room of national development and it is better positioned to create employment and wealth for the people.
Olawale said that as the voice of businesses in Nigeria, NECA was open to work with the ministers to fast-track business growth that would invariably lead to jobs creation and national development.
He added that regular engagement with stakeholders during policy formulation and implementation would be one of the key factors that would define the success or failure of the ministers
