The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has reaffirmed its determination in addressing the challenge of unemployment by providing skills acquisition training to youths aimed at making them self-employed.
Coordinator of NDE in Kano, Alhaji Idris Sani Yakasai stated this during the opening ceremony of the training of eighty unemployed women on three skills acquisition sets held in Kano.
He said since the establishment of the agency more than three decades ago, hundred thousand youths have been trained and have become self-employed.
Alhaji Idris Sani Yakasai noted that under this training, fifty women would undergo training on tie and dye skills, and 20 would be trained in organic products, which includes the production of medicated soap, medicated pomade, and production of perfumes.
He said another 10 would undergo training in beads stringing and stoneworks.
“The National Directorate of Employment as the Apex agency of Government established some 35 years ago to tackle the menace of mass unemployment, especially among women and youths has recorded tremendous successes in changing the mindset of our teeming unemployed youths”
The NDE coordinator noted that within the past four months the agency has trained many women in food processing and packaging skills, tying of gele, interior decoration, and make-up skills, saying NDE has disbursed one hundred thousand Naira each to the trained women so that they would be self-employed.
He urged the participants of the five days training to make maximum utilization of the opportunity, geared toward achieving the set objectives.
In her speech, Kano state Commissioner for Women Affairs Dr. Zahrau Mohammad, represented by Hajiya Nafisa Yakasai applauded the federal government’s efforts in initiating the program.
She appealed to NDE to enhance collaboration with the ministry in ensuring that more youths were being trained on different skills and traits.
Ummulkhair Ibrahim and Dabu Dorcas, both participants of the training, said they would utilize the golden opportunity, aimed at becoming employers of labour.
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