NDE trains 1,225 youths, women

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The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in Jigawa had trained 1,225 youths, including 228 women, in various income-generating vocations within the last 10 months.

The NDE State Coordinator, Alhaji Muhammad Sambo, said on Tuesday in Dutse that 73 of the women were trained in farming under the Commercial Farmers Training Programme.

He said that another set of 99 women were trained in environmental beautification under the NDE’s Environmental Beautification Training Scheme (EBTS).

The coordinator said that 50 other women received training in tie-and-dye under the Directorate’s Women Employment Promotion (WEP) scheme.

Sambo also said that 227 youths were trained in auto mechanic, tailoring, carpentry and electrical installation under the agency’s Basic National Open Apprenticeship Scheme (B-NOAS).

The coordinator said 25 others were trained in commercial farming, mobile phone repairs, motorcycle repairs, tailoring and electrical installation, under the NDE’s Commercial Farmers Training Programme (CFTP).

Sambo said that the directorate had also engaged unemployed graduates to teach 248 candidates in the state with deficiencies in WAEC, NECO and JAMB’s examination results.

He said that the 25 beneficiaries of the commercial farming training received N3.7 million loan to start their businesses.

Sambo said the gesture was to reduce unemployment and restiveness among youths in the state.

It was also aimed at empowering women to contribute to the well-being of their families and overall economic growth in the state, he said.

“Women will be accorded special attention considering the level of their vulnerability in the society,’’ he said.