Npower: Mr. Afolabi Imoukhuede's role as SSA-P on Job Creation/Youth Employment

Afolabi Imoukhuede is the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the President on Job Creation and Youth Employment in the Office of the Vice President. An Accountant by profession, he is an experienced International Development consultant with sector focus in construction, real estate and small business development. He is also a certified Project Management and Human Capital consultant with particular emphasis on Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET).

He is initiator and champion of SkillUp initiative, an Industry-Backed Technical Skills Competency Development solution designed to mitigate current dearth of skilled and competent technicians in the various industries by developing competent enterprise builders and wealth creators.

Prior to this, he was the Deputy Team Leader/Intervention Lead with the UK Department for International Development DFlD/GEMSZ programme with sector focus on stimulating Growth and Employment in the Construction and Real Estate. At GEMSZ, Afolabi championed the delivery of affordable housing for the lower and lower-middle income earners in Lagos state through the Private Public Partnership (PPP) procurement methodology.

Mr. lmoukhuede is a well-sought-out Speaker on issues of National Development particularly as it relates to Education for Employment, Job Creation, Skills Development, Economic inclusion and Affordable Housing.


His role as SSA-P on Job Creation/Youth Employment is to coordinate and champion the job creation strategies, plans and interventions linking them up to our relevant institutions at all levels of Nigerian Federating constituents – federal, state and local governments. Rather than seek to build a fiefdom as has always being the norm in our recent history of prior federal government  social interventions, his office seeks and indeed builds constructive and sustainable collaborating engagements and partnerships with constitutionally instituted organs of Government both MDAs and Industry sector standard bearers and champions.