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From Dooshima Terkura, Makurdi
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has flagged off jobs initiative for 2,827 unemployed youths in Benue State.
The Director General of NDE, Silas Agara, while performing the exercise at the weekend in Makurdi, said a total of 93,731 unemployed persons are to undergo the jobs initiative training across the federation in a practical demonstration of the agency’s commitment to fight unemployment in the country.
Agara represented by the Benue State Coordinator of NDE, Apochi Mathew Ubah, explained that the move was a core deliverable of the renewed hope agenda mass employment initiative brought to Nigerians by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“The National Directorate of Employment recruited a total of 93,731 unemployed persons across Nigeria, with Benue alone having 2,827 beneficiaries. These beneficiaries are to undergo vocational, agricultural and entrepreneurial skills training with completing transient jobs opportunities in the public works sector using over 30 different skills sets,” he said.
The NDE boss itemized the skills to include fashion designing, hairdressing, catering, GSM repairs, leather works, food processing techniques for women and fish poultry amongst others such as the Graduate Attachment Programme (GAP) which unemployed graduates who must have completed their national service would be attache to corporate organisations for a period of six months.
He added that the jobs creation initiative of the NDE would find expression in six out of the eight priority areas of the renewed hope agenda, stressing that start-up capital, equipment and working tools will be provided for deserving participants at the end of the training while others will be linked to credit granting institution to access loans to commence medium or large scale business.
