The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has claimed that his ministry will create more than two million additional jobs within the next three years.
He said that the ministry planned to achieve that in line with the Buhari administration’s efforts to move 100 million Nigerians out of poverty.
Lai Mohammed spoke to State House correspondents at the end of the sixth virtual meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by President Buhari at the State House, Abuja, on Wednesday.
On how the ministry could achieve the job creation, Lai Mohammed explained that the Cultural Industrial Centres, which are scattered all over the country, had the capacity to create 500,000 jobs within the next three years, adding that the nation could have some 100,000 jobs from the restoration of museums, especially in Lagos, Plateau and Kwara.
He stated saying, “But the good news, as contained in today’s presentation, is that the Ministry of Information and Culture is set to create over two million jobs within the next three years”
“We are doing this through the implementation of deliverable number seven, which mandates us to collaborate with the private sector to create jobs for the youth”
“The number one job creator under the Ministry of Information and Culture is the Digital Switch Over (DSO) in broadcasting, which is set to create one million jobs in the next three years through the manufacturing of set-top-boxes (decoders) and TV sets, TV and Film production, as well as TV and Online advertising and Data, among others.”
He concluded, “As for the Advertising Sector, bringing Nigeria’s TV advertisement market to what it should be, which is three times its current size, could result in additional $200-400 million dollars revenue to the industry, in addition to creating thousands of jobs.’’
The minister said that the DSO would also fetch 100 million dollars from the collection of TV licences and Digital Access Fess, as well as one billion dollars from the sale of the spectrum that would be vacated once the Analogue to Digital migration has been completed.
Lai Mohammed also revealed that the ministry had so far rolled out the DSO in five states (Enugu, Osun, Kwara, Kaduna, and Plateau) as well as the Federal Capital Territory, while efforts had been intensified to extend the rollout to all parts of the country.
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