ACCES: NDE targets 400 new beneficiaries from 8 states

About 400 Nigerians in seven states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), will be benefiting from a National Directorate of Employment (NDE) job creation programme in the construction sector, known as Artisans in Collaborative Construction Employment Scheme (ACCES).

The states, according to a press statement signed by NDE’s Deputy Director Press/Public Relations, Mr Edmund Onwuliri, and made available to journalists in Abuja, are Kogi, Rivers, Edo, Kaduna, Ebonyi, Kebbi, Jigawa.

The statement read, “Following the successful roll out in January of the Artisans in Collaborative Construction Employment Scheme (ACCES) in 13 states of the federation, the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has extended the new employment scheme to seven more states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

“The NDE had commenced the new scheme designed to provide employment opportunities within the construction sector with the following specific objectives: To engender a more reliable and dependable source of workforce within the construction sector; to provide an avenue for improving and upgrading the skills of artisans; to organise artisans for regular and sustainable work; to inculcate the spirit of professionalism and engender more trust by potential clients.”

Edmund further explained that, “The employment scheme is targeted at graduates of the following NDE training and employment schemes such as Environmental Beautification Scheme (EBS), Basic National Open Apprenticeship Scheme (B-NOAS), Advanced National Open Apprenticeship Scheme (A-NOAS) and other artisans.

“Apart from the provision of professional skills that are relevant to the construction industry, the new scheme will ensure collaboration between the NDE, domestic and multinational construction concerns as well as professional and regulatory bodies that will provide standardisation, certification and due regulation.

“It is expected that a total of 400 artisans will be engaged in the aforementioned states bringing the number of artisans so far recruited into the scheme in the 21 participating states to 1,050..”

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