The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) says it is training 81 youths under its Community Based Training Scheme (CBTS) on vocational skills in Jigawa.
The Director-General, NDE, Alhaji Abubakar Nuhu-Fikpo, said this at the launch of the directorate’s three-month training on Wednesday in Dutse.
Nuhu-Fikpo said the CBTS would be conducted under the agency’s Vocational Skills Development Programme to fight poverty and joblessness.
Nuhu-Fikpo, represented by Alhaji Hadi Mammani, the state’s NDE Coordinator, named some of the skills to include GSM repairs, electrical work, printing, fashion/design, beads making and computer operation.
“The total participants to be involved in this three months training are 81 participants drawn from across the 27 local government areas of the state.
“Each participant will receive a stipend of N5,000 per month to argument his/ her transport fare to the place of the training.
“The skills to be learnt include the following; GSM repairs, electric work, printing, fashion design, beads arrangement, computer operation and so on,” he said.
He said that while the Federal Government through the NDE was striving to train the citizens in employment generation and wealth creation, the beneficiaries must also pay attention to get the best.
”The agency was created in 1986 and one of its mandates is to design and implement programmes in order to combat mass unemployment in the country.
“Unemployment is predisposed to prostitution, thuggery, theft and other vices which constitute threat to the nation and society in general.
“ To prevent all these devastating occurrences, NDE was born and have been deploying several strategies to combat this menace of unemployment,” he added.
Nuhu-Fikpo, urged the beneficiaries to cooperate with the facilitators in order to equip themselves with the desired skills.
He also advised the state government to put more effort in jobs creation among teeming unemployed youths and women in the state.
He said that the gesture would help to create harmony in the state and the nation at large.
A beneficiary, Rufai Amadu who spoke on behalf of others, commended the NDE for the gesture and assured of using the knowledge gained to earn a living.
