NDE targets unemployed youths with skills acquisition to reduce insecurity

The Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo has revealed that the agency has rolled out a series of skills acquisition training for teeming unemployed youths in the country in a bid to reduce growing insecurity in the land.

The DG who spoke in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on Thursday during the flag-off ceremony for skills acquisition training and disbursement of resettlement items to over 500 beneficiaries in Ekiti, said that the government was determined to take more youths off the streets by equipping them with relevant and marketable skills for self-reliance.

Represented by the state coordinator of NDE, Mr Mustapha Saliu Kayode, the DG disclosed that the training programs are in three folds – basic national open apprenticeship scheme (B-NOAS), advanced national open apprenticeship scheme (A-NOAS) and the quick-fix, saying the trainees would be given monthly stipends by the federal government.

According to him, “all the above schemes are structured to help reduce unemployment, create wealth and curb criminal activities in the country and it is available to both men and women interested in learning skills such as barbing, hairdressing, bead stringing, catering, fashion designing, beauty therapy, knitting and cosmetology and so on.”

He added that the resettlement loan scheme which is giving out relevant tools and equipment on loan to interested youths in their chosen skills with nine per cent interest, advising the beneficiaries to pay up the loan for it to be available for other willing citizens.

“This drive us to enable the graduated trainees start up quickly without forgetting what they have learnt and hence relapsing into unemployment and poverty,” he said.

The representatives of the NDE director of vocational skills development, Igwesi Onyekwelu who congratulated the beneficiaries, advised them to take advantage of the opportunities to improve on their life without waiting for non-existent white-collar jobs.

Responding on behalf of the beneficiaries, Mrs Abosede Ojo, commended the NDE for coming up with the training, saying they would do everything possible to reduce the rate of poverty in the society.

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