Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, has vowed that the President Bola Tinubu administration will reverse Nigeria’s growing unemployment rate and low labour force participation.

This, he said, is the impression of an unfavourable society the Human Capital Development (HCD) Programme is designed to avert under the administration of President Tinubu.

Senator Shettima who made the promise during the weekend at the launch of the Nasarawa State Human Capital Development Strategy Document & Gender Transformative Human Capital Development Policy Framework in Lafia, emphasised that the administration’s goal is to empower Nigerians with globally competitive skills.

Earlier, the state Governor, Engr Sule, said the youths in the state would be engaged positively in agriculture, health, and entrepreneurship, just as he assured that the state’s strategic document on Human Capital Development would be strictly implemented to guide its interventions in various sectors.

For her part, the Special Adviser to the President on NEC and Climate Change, Rukaiya El-Rufai, said the National Human Capital Development programme was unveiled in 2018 with the aim of addressing poverty, fostering socio-economic growth, and improving human capital across the country.