Office of the Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Capacity Development, Sadiq Rabiu, in collaboration with a non-governmental organization (NGO) is set to train 1,000 youths in shoe making and maintenance across the country, aiming to create employment opportunities for them.
The Deputy Executive Director of the NGO, Reality Youth for Good Leadership and Support Initiative, Engr. Musa Idi, shared details of the program in an interview with newsmen in Bauchi on Friday. He stated that the training would take place over a period of two days.
Idi confirmed that all preparations for the empowerment program are complete, and the date for the training’s commencement will be announced soon.
He emphasized that the NGO’s mission—empowering Nigerian youths, promoting good governance, fostering community engagement, raising awareness, and building leadership skills—aligns with the renewed hope agenda of President Tinubu’s administration.
This alignment has piqued the interest of the Office of the Special Assistant to the President on Capacity Development, which has agreed to provide financial support for the training.
According to him, “He has agreed to partner with us, sponsor the training and said that we should go ahead with it.”
He stressed that, “The essence of the training is to empower the beneficiaries with the skill so as to be able to fend for themselves and even become employers of labour.”
“They will be effectively trained and at the same time, they will be given shoe maintenance kits to also ease their trade,” he said.
Musa Idi further explained that the beneficiaries would be drawn from North-West subregion in the first phase of the programme, adding that it would be extended to other subregions of the federation after the launching of the first phase.
He also explained that community leaders and other political stakeholders would play a pivotal role in selecting the beneficiaries which would be spread across the seven North-Western states of Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Jigawa, Sokoto, and Zamfara.
He, however, appealed to government at all levels and other well-meaning Nigerians to take up the task of empowering the less privileged in partnership with development partners and Non-Governmental organizations in the country.
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