By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar –
In its continued drive towards the actualization of its mandate of Poverty alleviation, Employment generation and wealth creation, the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) up has flagged off the training of 40 unemployed youths across the state in four trendy skills: welding, Aluminum fabrication, fashion design and computer application.
Tagged Youth transformation training scheme (YTTS) 2023, the exercise seeks to empower the Youths with the requisite skills that will enable them to start businesses of their own upon graduation.
Speaking at the orientation ceremony of the scheme at the conference hall of the Federal Secretariat Calabar calabar, the Director General of the NDE, Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, in his keynote address reiterated that it is in line with the mandate of the NDE which is geared towards providing gainful self employment to the teeming unemployed youths of the country that among other schemes, that the NDE hrough the Vocational Skills Department (VSD) has embarked on this exercise to actualize this mandate of the Directorate.
The Director General, who was represented by the state Coordinator of the NDE Cross River State, Mr Udam Gabriel Ugbashi added that the NDE has carefully selected these beneficiaries from the teeming unemployed youths population based on their interest on the skills sets, gender, age and both federal constituencies and Senatorial districts.
Earlier in his welcome address, the state Coordinator Mr Udam Gabriel Ugbashi informed the beneficiaries to consider themselves lucky to be selected from the teeming unemployed in the state.
He urged them put to proper use the tools and equipment in their care in order to achieve the utmost while in training.
In his welcome address, the Coordinator, who was represented by an Assistant Director and the Head of Department of the Rural Employment Promotions Department of the NDE, Mr Michael Ugbong added that having put in so much resources in the funding of the exercise by the federal government via the NDE, the beneficiaries should put in their best and make sure that the objective of the training is achieved.
In his goodwill message to the trainees, the Director of the Vocational Skills Department VSD Malam Isa Abdu admonished the trainees to understand that while the NDE owe them an obligation to empower them with the requisite skills to succeed, they also owe the NDE the obligation to learn and understand what they are being taught in order to get themselves transformed from the raw material stage to beautiful finished products.
A beneficiary of the scheme, Mr Lordswill Asuquo thanked the Federal Government for finding them worthy to be part of the exercise.
He promised on behalf of her colleagues that they will put in their best to make sure that the investment of the Federal Government in the exercise will not be in vain.
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