Silas Agara was appointed as the Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) by President Bola Tinubu.

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, revealed this in a statement he issued on Saturday titled ‘President Tinubu appoints new Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment.’

Agara is an entrepreneur and sports administrator who previously served as the Deputy Governor of Nasarawa State and he succeeds Nuhu Fikpo, who was appointed in May 2021

The President anticipates an overhaul of the NDE for optimal performance in designing and

implementing programs to combat mass unemployment.

NDE was established in November 1986 and began operations in January 1987 to address the effects of the economic recession of the 1980s which led to a profound drop in capacity utilisation and consequent outright closure of industries in Nigeria.