Rivers Govt To Employ 5000 Youths Into Civil Service

The Rivers State Executive Council has approved the employment of 5000 youths into the State Civil Service.

The approval was given during it’s meeting on Wednesday 28, October 2020, which was presided over by Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, held at Government House, Port Harcourt.

Briefing journalists after the meeting, the State’s Commissioner for Employment Generation and Empowerment, Mr. Sylvanus Nwankwo, said the youths must not be more than 35 years.

He said there were existing vacancies in the civil service for engineers, lawyers, medical doctors, technicians and other professions.

Also addressing journalists, the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Pastor Paulinus Nsirim, said the recruitment would fill the employment gap in the state.

Nsirim also said that the council approved that civil servants that were asked to stay back at home during the Covid- 19 pandemic lockdown are to resume work on Monday 2nd November, 2020.

“Civil servants on grade level 1 to 10 who have been at home because of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown are to resume work Monday November 2nd 2020. Similarly, bars that have been closed down since COVID-19 lockdown are to open,” he said.

According to the Commissioner, the council also approved a minor cabinet reshuffle that has moved the Commissioner for Chieftaincy and Community affairs to take charge of the Ministry of Works.

He said the current Commissioner for Works will now head the Ministry of Urban Development and Physical Planning, while the Commissioner he is replacing moves to the Ministry of Transport.

Nsirim stated that the current Commissioner for Transportation will now be in charge of the Ministry of Chieftaincy and Community Affairs.

The Commissioner also said council decided that the Rebisi flyover would be commissioned on the 7th November, 2020 by the Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola.

Nsirim informed that public bars that were closed for business due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic are now to open, while night clubs would remain closed.