Pius Anyim - Nigeria’s Centenary City to provide 50,000 jobs

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim, said on Friday that Nigeria’s Centenary City project would provide more than 50,000 construction jobs and 5,000 permanent jobs for Nigerians.

Mr. Anyim said this at Agbani in Enugu State during the 15th Convocation Lecture of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT).

The government scribe, in a lecture titled, “Celebrating Nigeria at 100, Successes and Prospects of a United Country’’, said the city would host 100,000 people at the end of its five- year development .

He said that the Federal Government would not spend any money on the celebration, adding that the celebration was to reaffirm that the country was not an accident.

Mr. Anyim was represented on the occasion by his Senior Special Assistant on Research and Documentation, Ferdinand Agwu.

He said that the country had played a definite role in international relations in the last 100 years and recorded more than 67 per cent literacy rate.

“Nigeria’s 100th birthday provides a wonderful opportunity for all Nigerians to celebrate and share in the nation’s success story.

“It is only with unity that we can achieve our desires. The Nigerian story is one of admirable and remarkable progress and our democracy is maturing,’’ Mr. Anyim said.