Nigeria, June 30 -- While Nigerians have been told to get set for massive recruitment of about 774,000 unemployed and unskilled workers, 15 per cent of the jobs (116,100) have already been allocated to lawmakers, a minister said.

Festus Keyamo, the minister of state for labour, added that the lawmakers were still not satisfied with what they were given.

"They still want to hijack the entire the programme, taking over the power of the president in the process," Mr Keyamo told journalists after a stormy session with lawmakers on Tuesday in Abuja.

PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported the clash between Mr Keyamo and the lawmakers at a meeting he had with the Joint Committee of the National Assembly on Employment and Labour.

The meeting was aime...