A Subsidy Reinvestment Programme (SURE-P) Pilot Scheme that will create five hundred job opportunities for women and youth in Kwara State will be formally launched next month.

The Special Assistant to the state governor on Youth Empowerment, Alhaji Zakariyau Babatunde dropped this hint today in Ilorin while featuring on "the Platform" a live phone-in programme.

Alhaji Babatunde said the scheme was designed to eventually create ten thousand job opportunities for women and youth, urging Kwarans to embrace the programme when fully implemented.

According to him, Six local government areas, Ilorin West, Ilorin East, Ifelodun, Oke-Ero, Baruten and Patigi would benefit from the pilot phase of the Scheme.

The Special Assistant also announced that a Central Advisory Committee on Employment Generation has been put in place to assist his office in monitoring and advising various employment agencies in the state such as the Civil Service Commission, Teaching Service Commission, Local Government Service Commission and SUBEB on the existing vacancy.

Alhaji Babatunde also disclosed that in view of the prevailing economic situation across the country, the state government planned to create a youth Trust fund comprising credible and well-to-do Kwarans that would generate funds and ideas to assist youth in agriculture, Resort Centres and training in various fields while the state governor, Alhaji AbdulFatah Ahmed would only play advisory role in the Scheme.