Review Age Employment To 40 Years, Lawmaker Urges FG

The lawmaker representing Benue South District, Senator Abba Moro has urged the Federal Government to review its policy on age employment by moving it from 20 or 30 years to at least 40 years considering the dynamism of the society.

The Senator had led a motion in July 2023, titled “Age Requirement Pre-condition for Employment in Nigeria, Urgent Need for Intervention”, seeking the Senate to address the issue which has rendered academically qualified persons unemployable.

Explaining in detail what inspired the motion, Moro while hosting the Coalition of the Nigerian Youths and students representing the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYC), the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), IPUSU Community Youth Forum, Tiv Youths Development Association, in Abuja, stated that the rate of employment due to age limit is very demoralising in the country.

According to him, “When youths in my constituency could not access employment, I encouraged them to go back to school. By the time they finished their master’s and Ph.D., they had grown beyond the stipulated government age. This, of course, affects the whole country, not only my constituency. The government should look critically into this situation.

“This is the reason I moved the motion that the government should reconsider the guidelines and policies that inhibit regular employment of the youths who have graduated from school. Most of these people pay their way through school and come out to nothing, very demoralising.

“I would want the public to note that the proposal I made in my motion was not to impose employees on employers contrary to the situation-making round. The intent was for Nigerians to appreciate the dynamic nature of the society and the predicament that we face in present-day Nigeria in terms of employment”.