BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto –
No fewer than 25 unemployed youths have been enrolled to undergo the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) Community Based-Business Training Scheme, (CBBTS) in Sokoto State.
Flagging off the training in Bodinga LGA of Sokoto, the State Coordinator of NDE, Ibrahim Faisal Audu said they are committed to ensuring the attainment of their mandate which simply seeks to create mass employment for skilled amd unskilled Nigerians.
Ibrahim Faisal while delivering speech on behalf of the Director General of NDE, malam Abubakar Nuhu Fipko said CBBTS is designed to train unemployed youths to acquire professional skills to help them translate knowledge to action using their understanding of the business environment.
Continuing, the DG said: ‘Twenty five (25) unemployed persons were successfully selected for the (CBBTS) Training Programme in Sokoto State.
“This is to develop the concept of business being thought by connecting them to personal first-hand experiences and familiar, accessible example within our immediate communities”.
Giving further insights into the training, Malam Fiplko said, it will last for 3 months, adding that by then, it is expected that the participant would have gained mastery of the skills of their choice in a community”.
“The participant would also be given incentive by providing them with monthly stipend of ₦5,000 only during the three months training period and ₦5,000 monthly training fee per participant for the three months training duration””.
Malam Fipko who also divulged that a soft loan of 25, 000 naira will be given to participants to help them.establish their businesses at the end of the training, added that they will be more successful because they have skills of comparative advantage in their respective localities.
According to him, the trainees will not only identify but also build on strengths, resources and relationships that exist within their respective communities.
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He however reminded them that communities are diverse in many ways especially in the structures and nature, hence, making community-based training a philosophical approach in which communities participate in addressing their local business.
“‘Situating a business training in a community without this philosophical approach make it community-placed rather than community-based”.
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