NDE embarks on basic business training for 17,000 participants in Enugu

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As part of the exit plan and a parting gift for the 17,000 participants, who got jobs under the Extended Special Public Works Programme, ESPW, the National Directorate of Employment, NDE, Enugu State, gave the participants a two-day Basic Business Training, BBT, in each of the three senatorial zones of the state.

The training became necessary to prepare the participants to embark on micro-business ventures in order not to return to the labour market after the three-month transient job.

The participants, during the three months programme, embarked on such jobs as general cleaning of parks, schools, markets; health centres, clearing of refuse dumps; traffic decongestion; road maintenance, drainage clearing as well as erosion control.

Addressing the participants from Enugu East Senatorial zone, during BBT lectures, on Wednesday, Enugu State Coordinator, Dr, Mrs Chika Onah, charged the participants to take the training seriously.

Onah also charged them to utilise the funds they were given to start businesses of their own and thus become possible employers of labour.

“You are lucky to have gotten the jobs. Now that you have been paid, I advise you to utilise the money you were paid to start your own business,” Onah admonished.

The training which was organised by the Small Scale Enterprises, SSE, Department of the agency, took off from Enugu North Senatorial Zone at Nsukka on July 6 and 7; Enugu West at Udi between July 12 and 13; while Enugu East commenced July 14 to end on July 15, 2021.

Participants from the three zones, who were happy at the gesture, appreciated the NDE and the federal government and wished the programme would be extended as the little they had benefited had gone a long way to better their lot and to cushion the effect of the economic crunch in the country.

The participants were employed under the 774,000 jobs of the Federal Government to empower the rural dwellers.

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