Port Harcourt - Federal Government is to engage 2,000 graduates in Rivers State in its Graduate Internship Scheme, GIS, under the Subsidy Re-Investment and Empowerment Programme, SURE-P.
Director, SURE-P GIS, Mr. Peter Papka, who spoke yesterday in Port Harcourt at the opening of the Graduate Internship Opportunities Fair, said about 2000 graduates from the state would be placed in the scheme from among participants at the three-day exercise.
He said the GIS was one of the units in SURE-P aimed at creating job opportunities for unemployed graduates in the country, adding that the internship fair was a forum for firms and graduates to interact.
Papka said: "We are doing this internship fair to create an avenue for firms to meet the graduates directly. This will afford the firms an opportunity to assess the graduates before employment."
He enjoined the graduates, who appeared yesterday at the fair, to use the opportunity of the forum to prove their worth before would be employers.
Source: Vanguard