Edo NDE trains 100,000 youths- official
No fewer than 100,000 youths in Edo have benefited from the
various training programmes of the National Directorate of Employment
(NDE), an official said.
Mrs Ayo Edegbai, the State Coordinator of NDE, disclosed this on Wednesday at the flag-off of Community Based Skills Training Scheme for youths at Uzairue in Etsako West Local Government Area of the state.
“The NDE as an intervention agency for job creation has touched over 100,000 people in the state through its four core programmes.
“The directorate will continue to fine-tune its programmes and strategies in line with international best practices to meet the increasing challenges posed by unemployment,” she said.
Edegbai said the youths were trained in vocational skill development, small-scale enterprise development, rural employment promotion and special public works.
The NDE coordinator called on groups, philanthropists, non-governmental bodies to partner with the agency in training more people to bail them out of poverty.
“Let me enjoin all individuals and agencies capable of supporting unemployed persons to collaborate with NDE to reduce the real and possible consequences of unemployment in our various areas.”
Earlier, the Programme Facilitator, Mrs Abibat Yakubu, said 100 youths were expected to undergo three months training in tiling, hair dressing, cosmetology, catering and phone repairs.
“The Community Based Skill Training Scheme will equip the youths with aggressive and up-to-date marketable vocational and technical skills to enable them to enter the road to self-reliance, self- actualisation and self-fulfilment.
“The idea is to engage unemployed youths in productive ventures thereby enabling them contribute to the economic wellbeing of the local government, state and the nation as well as to curb rural-urban migration,” Yakubu said
Mrs Ayo Edegbai, the State Coordinator of NDE, disclosed this on Wednesday at the flag-off of Community Based Skills Training Scheme for youths at Uzairue in Etsako West Local Government Area of the state.
“The NDE as an intervention agency for job creation has touched over 100,000 people in the state through its four core programmes.
“The directorate will continue to fine-tune its programmes and strategies in line with international best practices to meet the increasing challenges posed by unemployment,” she said.
Edegbai said the youths were trained in vocational skill development, small-scale enterprise development, rural employment promotion and special public works.
The NDE coordinator called on groups, philanthropists, non-governmental bodies to partner with the agency in training more people to bail them out of poverty.
“Let me enjoin all individuals and agencies capable of supporting unemployed persons to collaborate with NDE to reduce the real and possible consequences of unemployment in our various areas.”
Earlier, the Programme Facilitator, Mrs Abibat Yakubu, said 100 youths were expected to undergo three months training in tiling, hair dressing, cosmetology, catering and phone repairs.
“The Community Based Skill Training Scheme will equip the youths with aggressive and up-to-date marketable vocational and technical skills to enable them to enter the road to self-reliance, self- actualisation and self-fulfilment.
“The idea is to engage unemployed youths in productive ventures thereby enabling them contribute to the economic wellbeing of the local government, state and the nation as well as to curb rural-urban migration,” Yakubu said
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