National Directorate of Employment, NDE, has trained 540 beneficiaries of Extended Special Public Works, ESPW, on Advanced Business to mitigate unemployment in Zamfara State.
During the training in Zamfara West senatorial District at Talata Mafara, the Zamfara state coordinator of the NDE, Malam Abdullahi Yakubu said the Advanced Business Training, ABT, was designed by the NDE to ensure that, the ESPW beneficiaries advanced their business as they were earlier trained on Basic Business by using their Monthly emolument to start a Business.
The Coordinator who was represented by the Head of Finance and Account of the Directorate, Aliyu Mustapha Gonori charged the participants to use the opportunity judiciously to benefit from the vast potentials in Business.
In his Keynote Address, Director General of the NDE, Malam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo explained that, the Special Public Works Programme is one of the Four core programmes of the NDE designed to reduce the rate of unemployment in the country and harness the potentials of unemployed persons through engagement in labour intensive services.
The DG who was represented by Nuruddeen Ajanah noted that, the Advanced Business Training would expose the participants to opportunities towards improved employment after the project life of the ESPW.
Participants of the Advanced Business Training, ABT were drawn from each of the 14 local government areas of the state through selection of 180 persons from each of the 3 senatorial zones and their respective headquarters.
Some of the participants who spoke to Radio Nigeria expressed appreciation to Federal government for the ESPW programme and the Business training which they described as motivator to became self-employed.
Abdulrazak Kaura
