Are you unemployed and you live in Nigeria? Wednesday April 5 may be the beginning of new things for you.
The government is set to begin online registration of job-seekers in all 36 states of the federation.
The spokesman for the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Edmund Onwuliri, said the registration would enable the agency to collate up-to-date data.
He said the registration is in compliance with NDE's mandate "to obtain and maintain a data bank on unemployment and vacancies in the country".
The deputy director told the News Agency of Nigeria that the exercise would enable the directorate to serve as a clearing house, linking job seekers with existing vacancies in government agencies and the private sector.
"The online portal which goes live on Wednesday April 5, 2017, is designed to capture the relevant details of any unemployed person. It will equally serve as a job exchange portal that will link job seekers and employers.
"There will be a practical demonstration of the workings of the portal at the NDE stand at the ongoing 28th edition of the Enugu International Trade on Thursday," he said.

He gave the portal’s address as: www.jobsforall.ng.

"The directorate sees this initiative as a bold step toward deepening the effectiveness of its employment creation strategies and a critical input into the process of designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating programmes and schemes."
Onwuliri explained that the initiative would go a long way to eliminate the cumbersome process of recruitment by employers of skilled labour in private and public sectors.
Africa's most populous nation has witnessed employment rate increase in 7 straight quarters, making it harder for Nigerian graduates to secure jobs after school.
With over 11.2 million unemployed persons, the government is battling to provide jobs as promised during election campaign that brought the Muhammadu Buhari administration into office in 2015.