NDE empowers 430 people in Niger

Four hundred and thirty people who received training in various skills have being empowered by the National Directorate of Employment (NDE). The Acting Director-General of the directorate, Mr. Kunle Obayan, disclosed this at the resettlement of graduates of the Vocational Skills Development (VSD) programme in Minna. He said that the disbursement was in line with […]

Four hundred and thirty people who received training in various skills have being empowered by the National Directorate of Employment (NDE).
The Acting Director-General of the directorate, Mr. Kunle Obayan, disclosed this at the resettlement of graduates of the Vocational Skills Development (VSD) programme in Minna.
He said that the disbursement was in line with the plan to create mass employment opportunities for unskilled and unemployed Nigerians by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government.
Obayan said the desire of the NDE has been to empower all beneficiaries of its skills training programmes, but lamented that that had been limited by the funds available to the directorate each year.
The acting director general who was represented by the director, Small Scales Enterprises Department, Mrs. Henrieetta Achigu, advised unskilled and unemployed young Nigerians to take advantage of the various programmes of the NDE in order to exit joblessness, assuring that the directorate would not relent in its efforts in assisting young Nigerians access decent jobs.
The director general, New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD), Engineer Abdullahi Abubakar, said the empowerment of over 400 people across the nation by the NDE was a step towards addressing the developmental challenge the nation was facing.
He called on the beneficiaries to use what was given to them judiciously and urging the youth to discover their potentials.
Abubakar said the state government was encouraging youths to go into business ventures as government alone could not provide jobs for all the unemployed youths in the state. He said the state government would roll out its programme for youth empowerment soon.
The beneficiaries were given equipment for welding, electrical engineering, beads making, shoe making, fridge repair works among others.