Unemployment: PTI’s skill academy trains 250 Niger Delta youths in soap making, others

To further stem youths restiveness and unemployment in the Niger Delta, a two-week capacity building workshop on soap making and coating technology, among others, have commenced for about 250 youths in Delta State.

The workshop is courtesy of the Skill Development Academy (SDA) of the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), located at Osubi, Delta State.

The youths, it was gathered, were drafted from the nine states of the Niger Delta region.

The Principal of PTI, Dr Henry Adimula, at the opening ceremony of the workshop at the PTI Conference Centre, Effurun, said the programme, which is being organized by the institution in partnership with, Ufugold Project Services Ltd, was in line with the Federal Government’s drive to take Nigerians out of poverty, curb unemployment, as well as youths’ restiveness.

He urged the beneficiaries, comprising skilled, semiskilled and unskilled youths, to maximize the opportunity to learn a trade that’ll transform their lives in the nearest future.

“The only way people can be taken out of poverty is when they have the requisite skills that can use to start up their own businesses; skills that will allow them to be masters of their own and become employers of labour.

“So it is the plan of this government to do what we are doing today, that is to take youths from all over the country and train them, grant them the necessary skills that they can use to start up their own businesses. And not again rely on the federal government for jobs or become restive in the society.

“The institute is privileged to partner to deliver the training. We hope that all we become entrepreneurs and employers of labour,” Adimula stressed.

He commended the Federal Government for funding the programme through the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, noting that deliberate measures have been taken to equip Nigerian youths in the past few years.

Managing Director of Ufugold, Mr Ufuoma Johngold, however, lamented the manner in which some Nigerian youths have taken to social vices such as cybercrime and prostitution.

He advised the participants to be focused on the training and shun distractions from peer groups, assuring that the youths will be trained on various Petroleum Engineering Technology-related skills by professionals in the respective fields.

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